By Hook or Crook

BY HOOK OR CROOK
A Gritty Western Thriller of Corruption, Revenge, and One Man Hunted by the Law

The desert keeps its secrets. Until blood brings them to the surface.

Eldridge Sample was once a U.S. Marshal. Now he makes a hard living tracking fugitives across the New Mexico Territory. But when he rides into a dusty town for a routine bounty job, he finds his own face nailed to the wanted board.

Charged with murdering a powerful judge.
Price on his head.
Dead or alive.

Someone with money, influence, and deadly reach has framed him—and they want him buried before he can speak.

With killers on his trail and every lawman in the territory looking to collect, Sample is forced into an uneasy alliance with Nora Vane, a sharp-minded woman whose family was destroyed by the same corrupt men now stealing land, buying judges, and murdering anyone in their way.

What begins as a fight to clear his name becomes a brutal showdown against railroad barons, crooked officials, hired guns, and a conspiracy built on greed.

Outnumbered. Outgunned. Running out of time.

But Eldridge Sample has spent a lifetime finding men who don't want to be found.

Now it's his turn to hunt.

By Hook or Crook is a hard-edged western thriller packed with manhunts, frontier justice, gunfights, land fraud, revenge, and relentless suspense—perfect for fans of classic gritty westerns, C.J. Box, Elmore Leonard, and traditional frontier action.