The riveting first novel in the thrilling series featuring wildlife ranger Nick Drake from award-winning author Dwight Holing.In the unforgiving silence of the high desert, a killer is turning gullies into graves.Nick Drake returned from Vietnam with a boxful of medals and a duffle bag packed with demons. Trained to kill but left to find his own way back into society, he flees to the High Lonesome of Eastern Oregon in search of a hard-won p...

INCLUDES MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING NOVELSThe stakes explode in the High Lonesome. Binge the next three blockbuster thrillers in the character-driven series readers call gritty, real, and straight to the heart.The frontier pushed them to the edge. Now, it’s a fight to the finish in Harney County, Oregon. Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake has faced down individual killers, but in this gripping three-book collection, the ...

Sorrowful and funny tales of longing from the winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. Adroit, wistful, and nuanced says Kirkus Reviews. Brims with humanity and humor.Moving from the heartbreaking to the humorous and back again, Dwight Holing takes readers on a provocative journey where people must reconcile desire and reality. These stories travel terrains both exotic and familiar -- from the beautiful savagery of Africa where a couple must contend ...

Nature and noir combine in a spellbinding new stand-alone murder mystery by Dwight Holing, author of the bestselling Nick Drake series.An Indigenous girl from the Amazon named Blue Macaw mysteriously disappears after oil drillers invade her ancestral homeland. When her brother is accused of murdering a company executive, a no-holds-barred activist persuades Jess Parks to use his search and rescue skills to find Blue Macaw and catch the real killer.The chase...

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The High Lonesome Burns, Freezes, and Bleeds. Hold on tight for the next three blockbuster thrillers in the character-driven series readers call a masterclass of atmosphere and suspense.The war at home rages on in Harney County, Oregon. Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake has survived the initial threats to his new desert sanctuary, but the frontier doesn't grant peace for long. In this second gripping trilogy, the stakes turn deeply personal as a wav...

Winner of the Selena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award. Includes "Gallopers," which was awarded the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction.Meet the men and women who dwell on the far side of the California Dream: a war vet who rustles cactus near Palm Springs, a teenager living in the shadow of Disneyland about to be pulled into the draft, a Hollywood actress on the run from a violent past, a North Coast fisherman whose marriage founders when his son is lost at sea. Spare b...

Three award-winning mysteries. One relentless lawman. Enter the High Lonesome and discover the blockbuster series readers call a masterclass of atmosphere and suspense.Welcome to Harney County, Oregon. In the vast, sunbaked expanse of the High Lonesome, the silence judges and the heat sears. For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home is about to prove just as deadly as the jungles of Southeast Asia. Armed with lethal combat instincts and...

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Winner — The Silver Falchion Award, Killer Nashville, Best WesternWinner — Grand Prize & First Place, CLUE Award, Best Suspense & ThrillerWinner — Silver Medal, BPA Award, Best Mystery & ThrillerGreed ignites a war. A killer forces a reckoning. And an explosive twist ending will leave you gasping.A beautiful, pristine valley becomes a bloody battleground when a sav...

The crash was no accident. The bodies are piling up. And the Air Force wants the truth buried.Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake is finally finding a fragile peace in the high desert of Eastern Oregon. But that peace is shattered when a fighter jet plummets from the sky. What looks like a tragic accident quickly turns into something far more sinister.When the pilot's body becomes the first in a string of mysterious deaths, Nick finds himself ...

Ancient secrets. A modern slaughter. And a frozen mountain that might become a graveyard.A ruthless robbery of irreplaceable Paiute relics leaves two dead and plunges the High Lonesome into chaos. When two of wildlife ranger Nick Drake’s oldest and closest friends vanish from the crime scene, Nick mounts a furious search that puts him on a direct collision course with a cold-blooded killer obsessed with the ancient past.But the desert isn’t done testing him...