Hard Miles - C Lowry

The grid is dead. The law is gone. The hunt is on.

Vance Corren hunts men for bounty, trading fugitives for corporate gold. He knows the brutal mathematics of the Chihuahuan Desert better than anyone. So when the fiber-optic lines are deliberately severed, plunging the West Texas badlands into a total communications blackout, Vance knows the wolves are circling. He just didn't expect them to target a desperate family.

Nineteen-year-old Jackson Hayes and his brothers are risking everything to drive thirty head of wild, valuable mustangs across the unforgiving limestone canyons of the Devil's Backbone. It's a desperate overland push to pay off a crushing bank lien and save their family ranch. But in the "dark zone," cartel hijacker Alberto Vargas is waiting. Operating with military precision and absolute cruelty, Vargas ambushes the convoy, beats the boys to the edge of death, and steals their future.

The local Private Military Contractor base refuses to send help. The police are blind. The modern world's red tape has failed.

If Jackson wants his pride, his brothers' lives, and his family's land back, he has to stop playing cowboy. He has to become a monster. And Vance Corren is the perfect man to teach him how to hold the leash.

Armed with thirty-round magazines, night-vision optics, and cold, calculated rage, the cynical bounty hunter and the broken farm boy track a heavily armed cartel kill squad deep into the canyons. It's a suicide mission against superior firepower. But out here, survival is a brutal equation, and the mathematics of revenge are about to be balanced in blood.

Hard Miles is a blistering, high-octane modern western noir thriller. Perfect for fans of the relentless suspense of Sicario, the bleak landscapes of No Country for Old Men, and the hard-boiled grit of Elmore Leonard.