Silver Reckoning
(2026)(The first book in the John Hayes: Texas Ranger Western series)
A novel by Fred Staff and Paul L Thompson
Four ropes still swing from the gallows tree outside Dry Fork. Every one of them belonged to a man who thought the law still meant something out here.
Texas Ranger John Hayes rides into Dry Fork carrying a ten-year-old warrant and a reputation built in hard country where most men quit before the shooting starts. What he finds waiting for him is a town buried under fear, ruled by a killer named Digger Graves and the gang that keeps him in power one beating, one hanging, and one shallow grave at a time.
The people of Dry Fork have already learned what happens to men who stand up. Windows stay shuttered. Voices stay low. And the dead keep adding up beneath the desert sun. But Hayes didn’t ride across Texas to turn around at the first sign of blood.
Outnumbered, wounded, and cut off from help, Hayes begins a slow war against men who believe they own the territory and everyone living in it. In a town where justice has been hanging from a cottonwood tree for years, one Ranger intends to cut it down.
SILVER RECKONING is a gritty Classic Western packed with hard men, deadly reckonings, frontier justice, and the kind of slow-burning tension that only ends when somebody finally falls in the dirt.
Fans of traditional Western action and relentless Texas Ranger heroes will feel right at home.
Genre: Western
Texas Ranger John Hayes rides into Dry Fork carrying a ten-year-old warrant and a reputation built in hard country where most men quit before the shooting starts. What he finds waiting for him is a town buried under fear, ruled by a killer named Digger Graves and the gang that keeps him in power one beating, one hanging, and one shallow grave at a time.
The people of Dry Fork have already learned what happens to men who stand up. Windows stay shuttered. Voices stay low. And the dead keep adding up beneath the desert sun. But Hayes didn’t ride across Texas to turn around at the first sign of blood.
Outnumbered, wounded, and cut off from help, Hayes begins a slow war against men who believe they own the territory and everyone living in it. In a town where justice has been hanging from a cottonwood tree for years, one Ranger intends to cut it down.
SILVER RECKONING is a gritty Classic Western packed with hard men, deadly reckonings, frontier justice, and the kind of slow-burning tension that only ends when somebody finally falls in the dirt.
Fans of traditional Western action and relentless Texas Ranger heroes will feel right at home.
Genre: Western
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