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Appropriate Force
Paperback
Publisher: Chris Lowry
Published: Mar 11 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
APPROPRIATE FORCE
In the dying West Texas town of Ojos Secos, justice isn't blind. It's armed.
Mercer Sample rolled into the Chihuahuan Desert looking for a cheap motel and a quiet night. Instead, he gets a front-row seat to a violent, precision extraction. A heavy-duty Silverado tears the security grate off the local hardware store, blows the floor safe, and drags the owner's beautiful, screaming wife into the pitch-black night.
The local law hides behind locked doors. The husband, Elias Vance, is left beaten, isolated, and desperate. He offers Mercer a fortune in hidden cash to track the notorious Dalton brothers across the badlands and bring his wife home.
But the desert sand doesn't lie, and the tire tracks tell a terrifyingly different story.
As Mercer and Vance push deeper into off-the-grid cartel territory, dodging sniper ambushes and burning wreckage, the illusion of the perfect marriage shatters. The physical evidence proves the terrified hostage isn't a victim at all. She's a calculating femme fatale, the architect of the heist, and she's heavily armed.
The truth destroys the desperate husband, forging him into a cold-blooded killer obsessed with revenge. Now, Mercer isn't leading a rescue mission-he's escorting a broken man on a suicide run. Trapped in the high peaks of the Chinati Mountains, the relentless pursuit culminates in a brutal, close-quarters tactical shootout inside an abandoned silver mine where loyalty is a liability, and betrayal carries a massive body count.
Appropriate Force is a modern noir crime thriller packed with blistering action, psychological suspense, and neo-western grit. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, Lee Child, and hardboiled vigilante justice.
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