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Judas Star
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.99
Publisher: Grand Ozarks Media
Published: Dec 22 2025
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He followed a light in the dark. He found a debt that only a bullet could pay.
Drifting across the empty expanse of West Texas, former U.S. Marshal Eldridge Sample is looking for nothing more than a quiet trail. But when a brilliant, unblinking star hangs low over the horizon, curiosity pulls him off the path.
It doesn't lead to a manger. It leads to a mud-chinked shack, a woman in labor holding a shotgun, and a husband who vanished on his way to pay the mortgage.
Riding into the mud-slicked town of Cross Creek to find the missing man, Sample uncovers a racket that is as efficient as it is cruel. In a town where the Banker spots the marks and the Sheriff takes a cut of the robbery, an honest man doesn't stand a chance.
But the corrupt law of Cross Creek has never met a man like Eldridge Sample.
With time running out and a life waiting to be born in the dark, Sample must dismantle the town's machinery of greed the only way he knows how: by dragging the guilty into the light and balancing the books with a Colt .45.
The bank is closed, Sample said. But the reckoning is open.
A tight, atmospheric noir-western novella that packs the punch of a heavy caliber round. The Star of Judas is a story of hard men, desperate hours, and the violent cost of redemption. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard's Valdez Is Coming and the gritty realism of True Grit.
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