The Rest

Cal Reyes walked into the Cabinet Mountains six days ago to check a tip. His truck is still parked at the washout. Cal is not.

Ryder Lane trained that kid. He carried a Montana game warden's badge for seventeen years, until the state took it for telling the truth on paper. Now he guides elk hunters who can't shoot, and he doesn't owe anybody a thing. So when the county sheriff drives forty miles of washboard to ask him to bring Cal home, he says yes before she finishes the sentence.

He takes the one man he trusts in high country. Ryan Hale hunts problem grizzlies for a living. He is polite, he says very little, and he has never explained where he learned the rest.

Up there in the snow they find a network of hidden wilderness cabins where killers pay to disappear. A trapper who hums hymns while he sets snares for men. A ledger worth more than any of their lives. And a storm coming down the drainage that doesn't care who's right.

The season is closed. Nobody told the men hunting Ryder Lane.

A Montana field thriller with a dry hero, a lethal partner, and an old gray mule named Judge who has seen every disappointment twice.