The Ranger

From the acclaimed award-winning author comes an extraordinary new series about a real hero and the real Deep South. "With terrific inflected characters and a dark subtle sense of place and history The Ranger is an exceptional novel." -John Sandford "One of the best crime writers at work today." -Michael Connelly Ace Atkins returns with an extraordinary new series. Northeast Mississippi hill country rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson its home-but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan. Now an Army Ranger he returns to a place overrun by corruption and finds his uncle the county sheriff dead-a suicide hes told but others whisper murder. In the days that follow it will be up to Colson to discover the truth not only about his uncle but about his family his friends his town and not least about himself. And once the truth is discovered there is no turning back.