Stag Party: Patrick Flint 6 — A What Doesn't Kill You Super Series Mystery

For fans of C.J. Box, Vince Flynn, and Craig Johnson — a Winter 1977 Wyoming thriller in which two murdered ranch hands, a Shah of Iran, and a snowmobile chase through the Bighorn Mountains are all connected.

Dr. Patrick Flint goes to look at a horse for his wife and comes back with two murder victims, four broken ribs, and a stranded Iranian man named Abraham who is either a snowmobile racer from California or a physician to the Shah of Iran. The two murdered ranch hands knew which one he was. It cost them their lives.

SAVAK — the Iranian secret police — have followed Abraham to Buffalo, Wyoming. They believe he's an American spy. They've already killed two men. Patrick's friend Wes and a cast of local eccentrics are snowmobiling into the mountains for a long-planned backcountry trip, and Abraham needs a way to disappear. The Bighorn Mountains in December are an excellent place for a person to stop existing.

Stag Party is the Patrick Flint series' most geopolitically ambitious entry — a story about the Shah of Iran's hidden illness, Cold War intelligence, and a secret that a Wyoming country doctor stumbles into while trying to help a hitchhiker. It is also the story of Trish missing Ben Jones, Susanne accidentally joining the Johnson County Women's Club, Perry building a snow ramp off the deck into the creek, and a gelding that bucks Patrick off a fence rail before any of the dangerous stuff starts.

Stag Party is the sixth Patrick Flint novel, set in the Buffalo, Wyoming and Bighorn Mountains that author Pamela Fagan Hutchins explored as a girl. The snowmobiles are real. The SAVAK agents are not. The broken ribs come first. Complete series: 9 novels.

A Wyoming country doctor. An Iranian physician fleeing secret police. Two dead ranch hands and a Shah who won't take his medicine. In the Bighorn Mountains in December, everyone has secrets. Complete series: 9 novels.