Judd Jefferson thought getting old was going to be easy. He figured all he had to do was stay rich, keep loving his wife, live the cowboy life, and let the past take care of the past. But Judd has something wrong inside of him, some piece of his past that just won't die, and it's eating up everything that's good about his life. His inner demons have driven his wife, Celine, away, and now, when a mysterious poison strikes down his prize cattle, he finds himself on the verge of losing everything he has left.
Judd doesn't know what to do about his past, but he has a pretty good idea of what's going on in the present. There's a new microchip plant that's sprung up alongside his ranch, and Judd figures that it's what killed his herd. When he goes there looking for answers, what he finds is a conspiracy. And behind the conspiracy is one of the deadliest of the ghosts from Judd's army intelligence past -- C. K. Lone, a killer he met twenty years ago in Vietnam. In those days, Lone was a member of one of the Chinese triads, selling drugs, women, and death in equal parts. Lone blames Judd for the death of the only woman he ever loved, and now Lone has a chance to have his long-delayed vengeance. And Judd's herd is only the first piece of his life that Lone plans to destroy.
In Bone Music, Lee Moler has created a new paradigm for the classic Western novel, designed to fit the New West. Transformed by a contemporary cast and bold, new dangers, Bone Music captures the spirit of the Old West while effectively bringing the Western into the twenty-first century.
