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...

Grand Prize & First Place — CLUE Award for Best Suspense & Thriller NovelSilver Medal — IBPA Award for Best Mystery & Thriller NovelGreed 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 savage murder thrusts wildlife ranger Nick Drake and Sheriff Pudge Warbler into the center of a vici...

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...

New Badge. Old Blood. In the High Lonesome where secrets kill, the only thing shorter than a rookie Sheriff's term is his life expectancy.Nick Drake has traded his wildlife ranger uniform for a Sheriff’s star—but the unforgiving territory doesn't offer election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a brutal double homicide meticulously staged to look like a tragic murder-suicide. It’s a convenient lie designed to keep the peace, but Nick isn’t buying it.As ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Winner of the Silver Falchion Award for Best WesternWinner of the Laramie Award for Best AmericanaWinner of the IPPY Gold Medal for Best Mystery/SuspenseTwo desperate journeys across the American West. One a high-stakes manhunt, the other a father's fierce fight for his son. Both are on a collision course with death.When a charismatic Native rights activist is accu...

Fake cowboys. Real bodies. A corporate conspiracy worth killing for.A glamorous film crew invades the High Lonesome, turning the rugged backcountry into a celluloid version of the Old West. But when a real body falls on the movie set, Sheriff Pudge Warbler enlists wildlife ranger Nick Drake to untangle a web of vanity, secrets, and murder hidden among the stars.But the Hollywood drama is only a distraction from a much more vicious threat.Deep in the...

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 ...

Three escaped killers on the loose. A shadow predator slaughtering wild horses. The High Lonesome is about to become a crossfire.In the high desert of Eastern Oregon, spring doesn't bring renewal—it brings a season of dying. Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake faces a double nightmare when a trio of ruthless, escaped convicts flees into his backcountry, leaving a trail of violence in their wake. At the same time, a cruel predator is poisoning the regi...

A scorched earth. A stolen future. To save innocent lives, Nick Drake must walk straight into the fire.The searing summer heat has turned the High Lonesome into a tinderbox. When a desperate Native American mother begs wildlife ranger Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins, Nick plunges into the backcountry on a frantic search. But the wilderness is no longer just unyielding—it’s on fire.A ruthless pyromaniac is tearing through the territory, wea...