Overview

Gangsters and hoodlums prey upon people's weaknesses for a quick buck in an era that saw few bucks to spare, making criminals of everyday folks in the rural Great Depression. In a place as wild as the West ever was, during the heyday of the badmen and the lawmen, the law is in short supply. U.S. Marshal Nelson Lane chases a fleeing murder suspect from the frontier of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming all the way to the big city of El Reno in Oklahoma―out of his element in both places and nearly everywhere in between. His only help is an Indian rookie deputy sheriff, and she is as wild as any young woman of the time with access to booze and men-not much help to a widower alcoholic struggling in recovery. While she might get Nelson killed unintentionally, a shady sheriff dealing in illicit booze, his henchman warning Nelson to leave, and run-of-the-mill moonshiners just taking care of business are trying to take him out from all sides.

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"""A vivid exploration of Native culture, Prohibition and the Depression, and imperfect people trying to do right.""-Booklist ""Wendelboe turns from the contemporary American West (Hunting the Five Point Killer, etc.) to the Depression era to kick off a new series that packs the U.S. Marshal for Wyoming off to Oklahoma in pursuit of a murder suspect. Lots of violent action tempered with hints of romance and cultural clashes and a climactic surprise...""-Kirkus Reviews ""[A] fine Depression-era mystery... Lane gets beaten, delivers a beating, gets shot at, and ends up a murder suspect. Wendelboe nails the book's Dust Bowl setting perfectly.""-Publishers Weekly"

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"C. M. Wendelboe entered the law enforcement profession when he was discharged from the Marines as the Vietnam War was winding down. In the 1970s, he worked in South Dakota. He later moved to Gillette, Wyoming, and found his niche, where he remained a sheriff's deputy for over twenty-five years. In addition, he was a longtime firearms instructor at the local college and within the community.During his thirty-eight-year career in law enforcement, he served successful stints as police chief, policy adviser, and other supervisory roles for several agencies. Yet, he has always been most proud of ""working the street"" in the Wild West. He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue his true vocation as a fiction writer.Wendelboe is a prolific author of murder mysteries with a Western flair and traditional Westerns. He writes the Spirit Road Mysteries, the Bitter Wind Mystery series, as well as the Nelson Lane Frontier Mysteries, and the Tucker Ashley Western series. Wendelboe now lives and writes in Cheyenne, Wyoming."

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