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Open Roads
Paperback
Publisher: Chris Lowry
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
OPEN ROADS
A Modern Western Noir Crime Thriller
A stolen convoy, a cartel death squad, and one lawman who doesn't follow the rules.
The law stops at the border. Bowen Rhodes doesn't.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bowen Rhodes wears a Stetson like a crown and treats the federal code like a set of loose suggestions. He's a hard-edged lawman with a taste for violence, a past that won't stay buried, and a name that isn't his own. In the brutal borderlands of West Texas, Rhodes walks the razor-thin line between justice and vengeance-and he's starting to enjoy crossing it.
When a brutal massacre at a remote ranch leaves a cattle baron dead and a convoy of armored trucks missing, Rhodes takes the case. The stolen transports carry millions in black-budget military cash, and the thief is Red Kilgore, a rogue private contractor who kills obstacles for sport.
But Rhodes isn't the only hunter on the trail.
A silent cartel hit squad known as Los Fantasmas, led by the legendary assassin Chato, is closing in, determined to claim the money and erase everyone in their path. Caught in a three-way war between corrupt military officials, mercenary killers, and cartel ghosts, Rhodes must decide how far he's willing to go-and how many bodies he's willing to leave behind.
From the diesel-soaked oil fields of the Pecos to the limestone deathtraps of the Diablo Canyon, OPEN ROADS delivers gunfights, double-crosses, and hardboiled justice across the unforgiving Texas badlands.
This gritty neo-western thriller blends modern crime noir with high-stakes action and morally gray characters, perfect for fans of Justified, No Country for Old Men, Hell or High Water, and the hard-edged dialogue of Elmore Leonard and John D. MacDonald.
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