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Badlands Heat
Paperback
Publisher: Chris Lowry
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
BADLANDS HEAT
A Modern Western Crime Thriller
In the badlands of West Texas, the law is thin, the money is dirty, and the heat kills more than cattle.
The Permian Basin is booming. Oil money floods the desert. Cartels move product through pump jacks and man camps. Ranchers hire private muscle. And when something goes wrong, bodies vanish into the scrub.
When a violent robbery spirals into bloodshed and exposes a network of stolen crude, cartel cash, and corporate cover-ups, a hard-edged fixer finds himself trapped between three forces that don't forgive mistakes: ruthless oil tycoons, cartel enforcers, and Texas Rangers who finally have a case that sticks.
Every mile of highway is a threat. Every pump jack hides a secret. Every deal has a body count.
As the temperature climbs and the desert closes in, loyalties fracture, alliances turn lethal, and the line between outlaw and lawman disappears in the dust.
In West Texas, justice isn't blind. It's buried.
BADLANDS HEAT is a gritty modern noir western thriller packed with cartel crime, oilfield corruption, highway chases, and brutal frontier justice. Perfect for fans of No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, Ozark, Don Winslow, and Taylor Sheridan, this is a fast-paced crime novel where survival is measured in bullets, barrels, and blood.
Some places burn you slow.
The badlands burn you alive.
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