Cole Wright

Cole Wright always enjoys a quiet moment in a small town library as he travels from place to place. Free, welcoming, and quiet. And cheap used books for sale.As he peruses through the battered but readable volumes, a ruckus shatters the the Wilden Public Library's quiet haven.Libraries attract all kinds of folks. And sometimes library patrons take exception.Sometimes it leads to violence.Cole Wright once again finds himself in the middle.Wrong place. Wrong time. Just as well.

Slate Wheels, North Dakota. The edge of winter. A flat landscape dusted with snow.Bound with rough rope, Brett Wilcox struggles to get free. One little mistake put him here.Not even his fault.Not really. Cole Wright heads for Spokane. A simple trip. Back Roads. Quiet towns. But Slate Wheels is anything but quiet, and Wright finds himself unable to stand aside.

Jerome Miller lies in scorching, gritty sand, staring up out of the rugged ditch. Bleeding and broken. The start of a very bad day, for him. Cole Wright hitches into the town of Gollick, Arizona. Somewhere between Tuscon and Yuma. Looking for a good meal and maybe a bed for the night. Not looking for trouble. Sometimes, though, trouble hides away in those out of the way places. Sometimes trouble just finds him. Sometimes Wright just meets it head on.

Picked over by birds and coyotes, the body on the riverbank looks days old.When Cole Wright rolls into Pointer, Montana, he figures a few days of quiet before heading on. Maybe Canada. Maybe over the mountains and on through Idaho.Turns out, Pointer holds on to people. In very odd ways.Another Cole Wright thriller filled with deception, twists and turns, and a whole lot of mystery.