After rejoining the Texas Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion, Josiah Wolfe must escort his old friend Charlie Langdon to trial. But the ride to the hangman?s noose isn?t going to be easy. And Wolfe?s killer instinct may be his only chance to see his son again.
Larry D. Sweazy was born in Anderson, Indiana, and has spent most his life in the Hoosier state, with a four year stint spent in the state of Texas. He currently lives in Noblesville, Indiana, with his wife Rose, two dogs and a cat. He is a full-time writer and freelance indexer.
Larry D. Sweazy is the author of the Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger (Berkley) series, starting with THE RATTLESNAKE SEASON (#1, pub date: 10/2009), THE SCORPION TRAIL (#2, pub date 04/2010), THE BADGER's REVENGE (#3, pub date 04/2011), THE COUGAR'S PREY (#4, pub date 10/07/2001), THE COYOTE TRACKER (#5, pub date 08/07/2012), and a standalone (modern-day) thriller, THE DEVIL'S BONES (pub date 03/07/2012). Larry has also written more than 50 short stories, non-fiction articles, and poems. His first professionally published short story, "The Promotion", won the 2005 Spur award for Best Short Fiction, and appeared in The Best Short Mysteries of 2005 anthology (THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING DETECTIVE: AND 25 OF THE YEAR'S BEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES (Carroll & Graf), edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg. His other short stories have appeared in, or will appear in, Boy's Life, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Amazon Shorts, Hardboiled, Terminal Fright, and other anthologies and magazines.
His first novel, THE RATTLESNAKE SEASON, was a finalist in the Best Books of 2010 Indiana literary competition. His second novel, THE SCORPION TRAIL won the 2011 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction and the 2011 Best Books of Indiana literary competition in the fiction category. THE SCORPION TRAIL is the first western to ever win the Best Books of Indiana.
Larry's non-fiction articles have appeared in The Drood Review, Mystery Muses, Roundup magazine, and in the upcoming release from M.E. Sharpe, The Encyclopedia of the Western Expansion. As a freelance indexer, he has written 600 back-of-the-book indexes for publishers such as Cisco Press, Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, and Cengage.
For more information about Larry's writing and publishing career as a writer, poet, freelance indexer, and owner of WordWise Publishing Services, please visit www.larrydsweazy.com.
