Michael Reynolds, Author, Clay Reynolds, Author Da Capo Press $27.5 (320p) ISBN 978-1-885119-15-5
Hitler's last great thrust to the west, the Ardennes offensive, was spearheaded by an elite panzer force under Colonel Jochen Peiper, one of Germany's most daring and charismatic field commanders. Reynolds traces Peiper's doomed campaign throughout...
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Clay Reynolds, Author . Berkley $14 (389p) ISBN 978-0-425-18270-3
Written with brio and fidelity to historical detail, Reynolds's sixth novel (after Monuments) is a rough-riding, idiosyncratic western set in the 1880s. Reynolds loves quirky characters, impossible fixes and odd plot twists, and he has packed a...
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Clay Reynolds, Author . Texas Tech Univ. $27.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-89672-498-3
Reynolds's latest addition to his Sandhill Chronicles pays tribute to the legacy of James Dean and the glory days of drag racing, telling the heartfelt story of a North Texas racer whose legend dominates a small town in the post-WWII era. Bobby...
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Clay Reynolds, Author . Texas Tech Univ. $27.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-89672-615-4
Reynolds, a university of Texas at Dallas professor and PW
contributor, spins nine winning yarns about smalltown people trapped in mean circumstances in, mostly, the Lone Star state. “Mexico” follows a character named Clay as he goes...
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Clay Reynolds, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-312-84639-8
This off-beat tale of an old woman waiting for 30 years on a park bench for her daughter to return is that rara avis, an unsolicited manuscript come to publication. Since we meet Imogene at the end of her self-imposed vigil and are led back to its...
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Clay Reynolds, Author Dutton Books $22 (544p) ISBN 978-0-525-93365-6
In this ambitious historical novel set 10 years after the Civil War, Moses Franklin, a former Virginia slave who has become one of the few black scouts in the West, is hired to take 100 settlers on a tortuous journey across dangerous North Texas...
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Clay Reynolds, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0407-1
Reynolds takes leave of the pre-Civil War West (Franklin's Crossing, 1992) in this hard-driving yarn brimming with the dregs of today's Texas underworld: self-styled mob bosses, shysters, con artists, pimps, whores, burned-out cops and other...
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Clay Reynolds, Author Texas Tech University Press $29.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-89672-433-4
Following Players, this is Reynolds's fourth novel about the dusty, hot and sleepy West Texas town of Agatite, a faded stewpot of roiling passion, savage gossip and crooked politics in the late 1980s. Fourteen-year-old Hugh Rudd wants to mow lawns...
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