The Transgressors

When a West Texas lawman is swindled out of his oil rights, revenge leads to murder in this classic noir from "the best suspense writer going, bar none" (New York Times).

Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt to another place. And that's all right with him. What's not all right is being a deputy sheriff, where if it weren't for family misfortune, he might have been a doctor ...