Strong Vengeance: A Caitlin Strong Novel

Caitlin Strong battles Arab terrorists, homicidal pedophiles, murderous wealthy businessmen, and corrupt government agents in Land’s rousing, action-filled fourth novel featuring the fifth-generation Texas Ranger (after 2011’s Strong at the Break). Aiding Caitlin in all the derring-do is her lover, Cort Wesley Masters, recently released from a Mexican prison, where he languished for four months after killing a drug dealer. The main threat comes from terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, thought killed by a Predator drone the year before, who’s implementing a massive plot on Texas soil and beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico that aims to kill hundreds of thousands. As always, Land slips in a lot of Texas Ranger lore while presenting the crime-busting cowboys as living legends, the toughest, most upright lawmen and women in the U.S.A. Land also proves himself a plotting virtuoso by pulling all the widely disparate elements into a coherent whole. Agent: Natalia Aponte, Natalia Aponte Literary Agency. (July)