Judas Star

<h3>Judas Star </h3><p><strong>He followed a light in the dark. He found a debt that only a bullet could pay.</strong></p><p></p><p>Drifting across the empty expanse of West Texas former U.S. Marshal Eldridge Sample is looking for nothing more than a quiet trail. But when a brilliant unblinking star hangs low over the horizon curiosity pulls him off the path.</p><p>It doesn't lead to a manger. It leads to a mud-chinked shack a woman in labor holding a shotgun and a husband who vanished on his way to pay the mortgage.</p><p>Riding into the mud-slicked town of Cross Creek to find the missing man Sample uncovers a racket that is as efficient as it is cruel. In a town where the Banker spots the marks and the Sheriff takes a cut of the robbery an honest man doesn't stand a chance.</p><p>But the corrupt law of Cross Creek has never met a man like Eldridge Sample.</p><p>With time running out and a life waiting to be born in the dark Sample must dismantle the town's machinery of greed the only way he knows how: by dragging the guilty into the light and balancing the books with a Colt .45.</p><p><strong>The bank is closed Sample said. But the reckoning is open.</strong></p><p><strong>A tight atmospheric noir-western novella that packs the punch of a heavy caliber round. The Star of Judas is a story of hard men desperate hours and the violent cost of redemption. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard's Valdez Is Coming and the gritty realism of True Grit.</strong></p>