The Lawless
(2026)(The fifth book in the John Hayes: Texas Ranger Western series)
A novel by Fred Staff and Paul L Thompson
The canyon swallowed men whole. Texas Ranger John Hayes went down into it anyway.
When John Hayes finds a murdered settler camp on the alkali flats and learns a young boy has been dragged east into the canyon country, the trail leads him to Brass Canyon—a sulfur-choked mining pit ruled by outlaw boss Seth Dolan and worked by kidnapped boys forced into shafts too narrow for grown men.
To reach the boy, Hayes climbs down a rotting rope ladder into a hidden canyon packed with armed guards, collapsing mine tunnels, acid pools, and desperate men trapped under Dolan’s rule. Every step deeper into The Pit brings him farther from daylight and closer to a trap built by men who know the canyon better than the law ever will.
But John Hayes did not ride Texas carrying warrants so he could turn back from hard ground.
Now the Ranger must fight his way through smoke, sulfur, mine shafts, hanging cages, and outlaw gunmen while a stolen boy waits somewhere below the canyon floor and Seth Dolan closes the trap around him.
THE LAWLESS is a hard-country Western packed with outlaw mining camps, brutal canyon fighting, desperate survival, frontier justice, and a Texas Ranger willing to ride straight into hell to bring one boy back out alive.
Genre: Western
When John Hayes finds a murdered settler camp on the alkali flats and learns a young boy has been dragged east into the canyon country, the trail leads him to Brass Canyon—a sulfur-choked mining pit ruled by outlaw boss Seth Dolan and worked by kidnapped boys forced into shafts too narrow for grown men.
To reach the boy, Hayes climbs down a rotting rope ladder into a hidden canyon packed with armed guards, collapsing mine tunnels, acid pools, and desperate men trapped under Dolan’s rule. Every step deeper into The Pit brings him farther from daylight and closer to a trap built by men who know the canyon better than the law ever will.
But John Hayes did not ride Texas carrying warrants so he could turn back from hard ground.
Now the Ranger must fight his way through smoke, sulfur, mine shafts, hanging cages, and outlaw gunmen while a stolen boy waits somewhere below the canyon floor and Seth Dolan closes the trap around him.
THE LAWLESS is a hard-country Western packed with outlaw mining camps, brutal canyon fighting, desperate survival, frontier justice, and a Texas Ranger willing to ride straight into hell to bring one boy back out alive.
Genre: Western
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