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Literary Western Thriller · Standalones

August Beck

“The West is big enough to hide in. He's counting on it.”

August Beck writes literary western thrillers with Highsmith's nerve and McMurtry's dust — slow-burning standalones about men who ride into big country carrying small, terrible secrets. His pages move at the pace of weather building on the horizon: quiet, then all at once. For readers who like their westerns with an unreliable conscience.

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Standalones

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