Freelance lawman Jack Reacher, hitchhiking through West Texas, is picked up by Carmen Greer who asks him to kill her husband, Sloop, who is about to be released from prison; and though Jack declines, he does offer Carmen his protection and finds himself embroiled in a messy domestic dispute that quickly turns to murder.

When San Antonio FBI agent Garon Grier buys a ranch in Jacobsville, Texas, the strong, silent loner is hoping to mend some broken family fences. He's not looking for love. Grace Carver grew up in this quiet Texas town, but because of her troubled youth, she's never married-hadn't even thought about it...until Garon. These unlikely allies are brought together by the most difficult case of Garon's career: hunting an escaped child predator whose former...

With rumors of trouble on the Calders' Cee Bar Ranch, Quint Echohawk heads for Texas to investigate and discovers that Max Rutledge, the owner of a competing ranch, will do anything to get his hands on Calder land.

Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer for the people of sunbaked Deaf Smith, in southern Texas. Although occasionally he is haunted by memories of a violent past, his life is serene - until a local guitarist, Lucas Smothers, lands in jail for raping and murdering a young woman. As Billy Bob gathers information to defend him, the evidence soon points to the son of a wealthy local businessman.

His long-standing friendship with Gracie shattered by a moment of passion, Jason refuses to see Gracie as anything more than a younger stepsibling until their circumstances are further challenged by Gracie's abduction, an interfering woman, and Jason's brush with death.

Embarking on a guided rafting trip with her husband, Paul, in Big Bend National Park on the Texas-Mexico border, Anna Pigeon is drawn into dangerous intrigue when one of their companions on the trip discovers a pregnant woman caught among tangled branches in the river.

Jubal Kane was twenty-two-years-old. For the past year, he'd been in the saddle every day, riding from town to town on a seemingly endless search for three cold-blooded killers. They were the men who'd shot his parents in cold blood while Jubal watched, hidden inside a pile of hay. Mitchell was one of these men. And, with his death, Kane found some relief from the memories that had been haunting him. But, two murderers lived on. Jubal knew that...

John Ford's The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of film makers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute in 2008. Now, the novel that gave birth to the film returns to print, a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the real American frontier. From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley...