Badlands Heat

A Modern Western Crime Thriller

In the badlands of West Texas, the law is thin, the money is dirty, and the heat kills more than cattle.

The Permian Basin is booming. Oil money floods the desert. Cartels move product through pump jacks and man camps. Ranchers hire private muscle. And when something goes wrong, bodies vanish into the scrub.

When a violent robbery spirals into bloodshed and exposes a network of stolen crude, cartel cash, and corporate cover-ups, a hard-edged fixer f...