For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller.Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He’s been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But...

New Badge. Old Blood.Nick Drake traded his past as a fish and wildlife ranger for the Sheriff’s star, but Harney County, Oregon doesn’t do election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a double homicide staged as a murder-suicide—a lie Nick isn't buying. As he digs into the crime’s rotting core, the rookie Sheriff finds himself fighting a war on two fronts: a lethal learning curve with unproven deputies and a political recall designed to bury him. In the High Lone...

Nick Drake is back! A contemporary western thriller.It's 1969 and spring finally comes to the lonesome Oregon high desert after an especially bitter winter, but for every new beginning, something old must give way. Someone is poisoning wild horses and a vicious killer escapes from prison. A murder thrusts Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake into a desperate manhunt that turns into a fight for survival to protect those he holds dear. Spring quickly tur...

Nick Drake returns in the thrilling sequel to The Sorrow Hand. A contemporary western thriller.Set in 1968, Nick Drake is a troubled Vietnam War veteran seeking redemption as a game warden in a quiet land. But when a fighter pilot from a nearby Air Force base mysteriously plummets onto one of his refuges, he is plunged into a deadly showdown with the military. A vexing mystery involving multiple murders ensues, and Nick must turn to the old ways of his Pai...

Trouble doubles down on wildlife ranger Nick Drake.In the latest novel in the highly acclaimed contemporary western thriller series, a mysterious Native American pleads with Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins. At the same time, an arsonist goes on a rampage. As Nick mounts a desperate search for the children, he is forced to fight fire with fire when the pyromaniac targets the people and land he loves.Read as a standalone or as part o...

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...

Wildlife rangers Nick Drake and Loq take separate paths, but both lead to action, murder, and mystery in a thrilling and emotionally charged chapter in this bestselling series.When his sister goes on the run with a charismatic Indian rights activist wanted for murder, Loq risks everything to find her. He teams up with a beautiful police officer tracking a member of her own tribe who joined the fugitive too. Danger, desire, and treachery test the pair as they follow...

The first three suspense thrillers in the Nick Drake series from award-winning author Dwight Holing.Take a ride in the high lonesome with Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake as he discovers the war at home can be just as deadly. Dwight Holing draws on his deeply rooted connection to the American West and understanding of the natural world to create masterful stories. With memorable characters and prose that crackles like the unforgiving setting, he bu...

Living is hard on the high lonesome, but dying is easy. When two of Nick Drake’s oldest Paiute friends disappear during a robbery of ancient relics that leads to a double murder, his race to find them puts him on a collision course with an obsessed killer. And that’s only for starters. A plane crash on a snowy mountainside after a wedding and with a baby on the way leads to a desperate fight for survival. Only one outcome is certain: life will never be the same for Nick, G...

A murder. A land grab. A won’t see it coming ending. The explosive return of Nick Drake.Wildlife Ranger Nick Drake and Sheriff Pudge Warbler join forces to solve a grisly murder. Their investigation thrusts them into the middle of a vicious battle between ranchers and developers over a beautiful valley.When they close in on the killer, everything the lawmen hold dear is threatened and forcesa reckoning. Will they honor their oaths to follow the lett...

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 ...

Thrilling whitewater adventure, an ancient demon, a sexy new boss, trouble at home, and murder combine in this spellbinding new installment in the bestselling and award-winning Nick Drake mystery series.When US Fish and Wildlife Ranger Nick Drake gets a beautiful and impetuous new supervisor, he quickly becomes pulled into a physical and emotional cauldron after she orders him to guide her down a dangerous and deadly river. As rapids roar and passions roil, Nick mu...