Barlow Adams

The year is 1970. Barlow Adams is a young deputy sheriff in a rural county in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. He's a rookie still learning the ropes. Up until now, his experience has been limited to working in the jail and performing routine patrol work that is anything but routine when bad men decide to exert themselves in furtherance of their wicked ways. In recent months, a gang of rustlers had begun to prey on the livestock of unwitting ranchers. The sheriff has decided to stop them cold wherever he finds them. He employs all the limited resources at his disposal to achieve this goal. One of those resources is Deputy Adams, who learns new law enforcement skills in teamwork, criminal investigation, surveillance, and undercover operations. Barlow also learns something else. The crime may be solved and plans may be hatched to catch the evildoers, but, in the end, there's usually a joker in the woodpile who upsets the applecart and then suddenly Life becomes a free for all. This is the second novel in the new Barlow Adams series.

After they depart, law enforcement is notified that Joe Schitt (villain in Book I) and another criminal have escaped from prison. They are hunting Barlow and Sarah to kill them in revenge for Joe Schitt's arrest and incarceration. (The fugitives have the rough itinerary of the honeymoon from the wedding announcement in the newspaper.) A deputy from Quayle County is dispatched to try to find and warn Sarah and Barlow because they haven't been in touch with Sarah's parents, and their exact whereabouts are unknown. It's a race against time in a lethal game of cat and mouse.

Evil Lurks In The Darkness Even When Strong Men Stand Watch The year is 1972. Quayle County, located in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, has seen an uptick of illegal alien smuggling from across the Rio Grande. The alien smugglers are determined and violent. The Border Patrol is overwhelmed with greater numbers of human trafficking cases in other areas, and therefore is unable to assist. Illegal aliens and Americans are dying alike. The small sheriff's office and the local population are left to their own devices to resolve this crisis. Once again, Sheriff Solomon Pratt, Deputy Barlow Adams, Deputy Slick Oldman, retired Deputy Archie Willis, plus the new rookie, Deputy E.M. Gillespie, and the rest of the staff on the Quayle County Sheriff's Office rise to the occasion to vanquish the threat.