The Sorrow Hand

<p><strong>For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller.</strong><br />Harney County Oregon 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.<br /><br /><strong>What readers are saying:</strong><br />★★★★★ <em>Fits right alongside Craig Johnson C.J. Box and Nevada Barr.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>I'm a huge fan of contemporary westerns married with a mystery. This nails it.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>Nick Drake is wonderfully complex. His backstory in Vietnam is beautifully (and horrifically) described.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>The supporting characters feel so real. The old lawman Deputy Pudge Warbler is as flinty and resolute as his pitiless territory.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>I absolutely loved the Native American character her language and myths.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>Got it on Friday and finished it on Saturday. An amazing read.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>Smart thrilling and action-packed.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>The prose crackles like the high desert setting.</em><br />★★★★★ <em>The descriptions of the natural surroundings put me right there. I could touch smell and hear it.</em></p>