Cold Wind Rising
(2026)(The sixth book in the John Hayes: Texas Ranger Western series)
A novel by Fred Staff and Paul L Thompson
The norther came down out of the Llano like judgment. John Hayes rode straight into it carrying a warrant already built on lies.
Texas Ranger John Hayes is hunting a wanted Deputy U.S. Marshal across the frozen emptiness of the Llano Estacado when a blue norther drives him into a hidden dugout carved beneath the earth. Inside, he finds not an outlaw, but a wounded federal marshal carrying proof that the law itself has been compromised.
Now Hayes and Deputy Marshal Bart Allan are riding through blizzard country with corrupt judges, stolen federal documents, hired gunmen, and an outlaw named Ringo Wayne closing every trail ahead of them. Every relay station may already be bought. Every telegraph wire may already be compromised. And somewhere beyond the storm waits a land-fraud empire willing to kill anyone who gets too close to the truth.
But John Hayes has ridden too many hard miles to let crooked men turn the law into another outlaw tool.
COLD WIND RISING is a hard-country Western filled with blizzard pursuit, frozen plains, outlaw conspiracies, desperate frontier survival, and a Texas Ranger determined to carry the truth across hostile country before the men behind the fraud bury it for good.
Genre: Western
Texas Ranger John Hayes is hunting a wanted Deputy U.S. Marshal across the frozen emptiness of the Llano Estacado when a blue norther drives him into a hidden dugout carved beneath the earth. Inside, he finds not an outlaw, but a wounded federal marshal carrying proof that the law itself has been compromised.
Now Hayes and Deputy Marshal Bart Allan are riding through blizzard country with corrupt judges, stolen federal documents, hired gunmen, and an outlaw named Ringo Wayne closing every trail ahead of them. Every relay station may already be bought. Every telegraph wire may already be compromised. And somewhere beyond the storm waits a land-fraud empire willing to kill anyone who gets too close to the truth.
But John Hayes has ridden too many hard miles to let crooked men turn the law into another outlaw tool.
COLD WIND RISING is a hard-country Western filled with blizzard pursuit, frozen plains, outlaw conspiracies, desperate frontier survival, and a Texas Ranger determined to carry the truth across hostile country before the men behind the fraud bury it for good.
Genre: Western
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