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Dark Hours
Paperback
Publisher: Chris Lowry
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
DARK HOURS
He walked into a West Texas police station and confessed to three murders. But he didn't come to surrender. He came to start a war.
Ray Vance fixes problems. When a ruthless lithium-mining conglomerate burns a local family to death to steal their land, Vance cancels the corporate contracts-using a suppressed Glock 19. He leaves three expensive fixers bleeding in the salt flats. Then, he drives his battered Tacoma into the dying town of Bitter Creek, drops his weapon on a deputy's desk, and asks to be locked inside the reinforced concrete holding cell.
Richard Cross owns politicians, judges, and a private army of Tier One mercenary operators. He directs his empire from the cabin of a three-million-dollar armored motorcoach. When Cross realizes his acquisition team is dead, he brings his absolute authority to Bitter Creek. He jams the cellular towers. He severs the hardlines. He intends to erase Vance, the burned-out local sheriff, and the entire town to secure his billion-dollar extraction zone before dawn.
Cross expects a swift, silent slaughter. He underestimates his prey.
Vance didn't lock himself in the county jail to hide. He chose the Cold War-era bunker for its three-foot-thick concrete walls. He needed an anvil to break the billionaire's hammer. As night falls and tactical teams use thermite to breach the steel doors, Bitter Creek transforms into a brutal, claustrophobic kill zone.
Dark Hours is a blistering, action-packed neo-Western noir thriller. Featuring razor-sharp dialogue, relentless pacing, and cold-blooded vigilante justice, this hardboiled crime novel hits like a pump-action shotgun. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, Craig Johnson, and No Country for Old Men.
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