{"product_id":"9781483535265","title":"Pecos Moon","description":"The West Texas desert is familiar territory to all manner of bandits, desperados, Indian \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eraiders...and a serial killer! The gruesome murders of young women by a savage predator, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eknown only as the Fort Davis Butcher, puts famed outlaw hunter Johnny Madrid on his trail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadrid, a former Texas Ranger and now a deputy U.S. marshal, must decipher the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eevidence leading to some shocking conclusions. In his latest novel, “Pecos Moon,” veteran \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecrime writer Tim Younkman introduces Madrid, whose exploits include a shootout with \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elegendary Texas train robber and killer Sam Bass, ending the bandit’s career...and his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe investigation leads Madrid across the vast expanse of Texas where he corners the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eButcher and then discovers another, even more diabolical killer described in the press as the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Servant Girl Annihilator.” This new killer has been loosed on the state capital, bludgeoning his \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eway through the upscale neighborhoods of Austin, leaving mutilated women in his wake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When his own family is threatened, Madrid discovers the link between the Butcher and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe Annihilator leading to a final highly personal and most deadly confrontation. Johnny Madrid \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis a rare breed of tough Western lawman, a mixture of European Spanish, Bayou Cajun, and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMexican heritage, who fashioned a legend and legacy across the burgeoning frontier, an enforcer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof the law who knows how to bend it to achieve justice, and definitely a man one cannot forget. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “Pecos Moon,” Younkman captures the elements that drew men and their women to the desert \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eplains of West Texas as they forged a promising new world from their dust-coated past.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125865922800,"sku":"9781483535265","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781483535265_p0.jpg?v=1763629736","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781483535265","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}