Con su padre aún en prisión, Bobby Drake necesita algo más que una estrella de ayudante del sheriff para demostrar que se encuentra en el lado bueno de la ley. La desconfianza ajena y una corazonada propia lo llevan a aprovechar su dia libre para acampar en las montañas de Silver Lake, donde acaba desbaratando una operacion de trafico de drogas a traves de la frontera canadiense, aunque no puede impedir que uno de los implicados huya.Tras haber pasado diez años a la sombra, Phil Hunt se ha prometido morir antes que volver a pisar la carcel. Durante dos decadas ha llevado una vida normal junto a su esposa Nora, criando caballos y cuidando de su rancho, ocasionalmente transportando cargamentos de cocaina para que le cuadraran las cuentas. Ahora debe mostrarse mas rapido que Bobby Drake y la DEA, pero tambien que el brutal asesino que los dueños del alijo han enviado para borrar sus huellas.
Life hasn't worked out the way Ray planned. Ten years ago he had a wife, a job, a child. Now he has nothing. And nothing to lose. He is back in his home town of Coronado for one last job. Just one small job and that will be the end of it. But in the past ten years the rules have changed. Today nothing is the same. And as Ray's past is dug up, he discovers that perhaps there is something worth fighting for after all. Something he almost lost, and something he will not give up on again
Urban Waite ha sido comparado con Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway y John Steinbeck. Candidata a la mejor novela criminal de 2013. New York Journal of Books Impactante western noir. PublishersWeekly Tras diez años como mano derecha de un señor de la droga, Ray Lamar ha aceptado realizar robar el alijo de heroina de un narco rival, lo que le permitira retirarse y regresar a su casa, en Nuevo Mexico, junto a su hijo adolescente. Pero, desde la muerte de su esposa en un ajuste de cuentas, la vida viene entrometiendose en los planes de Ray. Y esta vez no parece que vaya a ser diferente. Asi, cuando el golpe se tuerce, Ray debera a echar mano de las armas si quiere seguir con vida. De pronto la sangre comienza a correr, y lo que parecia un trabajo sencillo se convierte en una orgia de violencia y sangre en la que se ven implicados traficantes locales, diversos organismos policiales, y Tom Herrera, su primo y antiguo sheriff de la region. Aves de presa es un apasionante western contemporaneo que confirma a Urban Waite como alumno aventajado de Cormac McCarthy y Elmore Leonard. Una lectura inolvidable, cuyas paginas desprenden polvo del desierto y huelen a polvora quemada.
Hunt, an ex-convict, has spent the past twenty years on a small ranch with his wife, supplementing his income with the odd drug smuggling job. Drake, a deputy sheriff, is newly married and has almost escaped the shadow of his father, who was also a sheriff -- and no stranger to the drug trade himself...Drake is on Hunt's trail when a big drug deal in the mountains goes awry and so begins a terrifying race against time. Although Hunt evades Drake's attempts at capture the traffickers soon unleash a merciless hired killer to reclaim what's theirs. As the chase closes in and loyalties are tested, Drake's quest for justice contends with a hitman's quest for blood, and Hunt must face a terrible choice...
The official prequel to the latest instalment of the Far Cry video game series.Hope County, Montana. Land of the free and the brave, but also home to a fanatical doomsday cult known as The Church of Edens Gate that has slowly been infiltrating the residents daily lives in the past years.Mary May Fairgrave, a local barkeep, has lost almost everything to the Church: her parents died in suspicious conditions and her brother, entranced by the cult leaders charismatic words, has vanished. When the authorities refuse to investigate further, she decides to take matters into her own hands.Local hunter William Boyd was saved by Edens Gate years ago, during the darkest moments of his life. When his duties lead him to cross paths with Mary May, the daughter of one of his old friends, he soon discovers that what is happening in the county is far from what he believed.Up against an omniscient and dangerous adversary, Mary May stands little chance. But the unexpected intervention of William Boyd will change her journeyas well as his.
La precuela novelada de uno de los videojuegos más esperados del año.Desde hace unos años, el pueblo de Hope County recibe un flujo constante de extranjeros: son los miembros de la Iglesia de las Puertas del Eden. Durante todo este tiempo, se han dedicado a captar miembros, adquirir tierras y gestionar negocios locales. Ahora la secta se dispone a tomar el control de la zona y sembrar el caos. Un policia novato debera restablecer el orden y la paz del lugar.