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THE FAR EMPTY
In this fantastic debut crime novel, a body is unearthed in the Texas borderlands, and the obvious suspect is the most untouchable man in town.
Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother, and he is struggling to find a way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly-minted sheriff’s deputy, a former star high school athlete who’s reluctantly returned to his hometown.
When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together, as their efforts to uncover Murfee’s darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect: Caleb’s father and Chris’ boss, the charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford “Judge” Ross.
Dark, elegiac, and violent, THE FAR EMPTY is a story of loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border.
J. Todd Scott has been a Special Agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration since 1995. In his years at the agency, he worked as part of a crew on an undercover vessel in the South Pacific during an investigation of international maritime smuggling, trained Haitian police officers on drug investigations, worked undercover in meth lab cases in his Kentucky hometown, and led a multi-agency strike force dedicated to attacking Mexican cartel smuggling routes. During his rotation to the DEA’s office in Washington, he consulted with filmmakers on DEA-related stories and movies, and, encouraged by this exposure to working writers, renewed his lifelong passion for creative writing. When he was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division, the move to Texas provided the backdrop for THE FAR EMPTY.
When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together, as their efforts to uncover Murfee’s darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect: Caleb’s father and Chris’ boss, the charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford “Judge” Ross.
Dark, elegiac, and violent, THE FAR EMPTY is a story of loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border.
J. Todd Scott has been a Special Agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration since 1995. In his years at the agency, he worked as part of a crew on an undercover vessel in the South Pacific during an investigation of international maritime smuggling, trained Haitian police officers on drug investigations, worked undercover in meth lab cases in his Kentucky hometown, and led a multi-agency strike force dedicated to attacking Mexican cartel smuggling routes. During his rotation to the DEA’s office in Washington, he consulted with filmmakers on DEA-related stories and movies, and, encouraged by this exposure to working writers, renewed his lifelong passion for creative writing. When he was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division, the move to Texas provided the backdrop for THE FAR EMPTY.
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Published 2016-06-07 by Putnam |