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U. S. Marshall Danny Coogan returns to his roots in Montana to settle into the sleepy town of Darwin with his pregnant wife. But as Danny races into town ahead of an early blizzard, the storms of his past threaten his future. Not only has the ambitions of the Ghost Buffalo Society set some of the local Indians on a path toward insurrection, but Danny’s best friend, Edmund Goodrunner, working undercover for the Tribal Council, has gone missing.
Soon, gunfire erupts in the town of Brokenrope on the Rez. Danny is first on the scene and calls in for backup. He realizes this was a deadly diversion, while back in Tennant Creek, three men have broken Ethan Iron Tail, a geologist working for the local mine, out of jail. During the break-out, a cop is shot, as is Danny’s wife, an innocent bystander. Soon, the FBI, State Police, Sheriff’s Department, and Tribal Police are involved, each with an eye on their brand of justice. Danny, as a U.S. Marshall, is caught in the middle of jurisdictional disputes while his wife’s life hangs in the balance in a surgical room in Darwin Memorial Hospital.
Danny knows what he needs to do as a lawman: discover the motives for these shootings, find Edmund, and stop the carnage. But as a man and a husband, he craves vengeance on the culprit who shot his wife.
Danny uncovers how simmering prejudices, unscrupulous greed, and the desperation of poverty have crept into the Dead Horse Indian Reservation. Danny ends up in a blizzard-impacted shoot-out that can either save himself, Edmund, and the community or lead down a warpath that promises further destruction. And in the balance, he faces the all-too-human desire for revenge against the morality he has just sworn to uphold as a lawman.
The flavor of westerns from the past woven into the fabric of current-day social issues provides fans of Craig Johnson and CJ Box with a new series of adventures. FRONTIER MARSHALL joins the earlier successes of FRONTIER JUSTICE and FRONTIER OUTLAWS. If you like western-flavored crime stories with realistic and resilient heroes, hot shoot-outs, and a smattering of wilderness humor, you’ll be thrilled to read THE COOGAN MYSTERY series.