It was a sad day for Western writers everywhere when Five Star Publishing, where several of my novels had found a home in hardcover editions, closed down. However, another publisher in the same conglomerate, Thorndike Press, which had released those same novels in large print editions, invited a few of Five Star’s Western authors to submit manuscripts for publication as large-print originals.
There are two new novels of mine out in large print as of
now, and a third will be along soon. It’s a trilogy, a series, with the overall
title borrowed from this quotation by Ernest Hemingway: “There is no hunting
like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and
liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” The line seemed appropriate
for a bounty hunter, and so the series.
The star of the trilogy is Matt Crowder, formerly a
deputy United States Marshal and now an independent hunter of men. Hanging Man: The Hunting of Man Book 1 is now available. Crowder encounters
a man hanging from a tree with no identification and few clues concerning his
identity or his fate. He spends the next 339 pages figuring it out,
encountering all kinds of complications and adventures along the way.
Also available is Running Man: The Hunting of Man Book 2, in which Crowder pursues an escaped
convict whose goal is to put as much distance between his escape and pursuit as
he can, as fast as he can. Again, our bounty hunter is relentless, and during
the chase uncovers government corruption.
Hiding
Man: The Hunting of Man Book 3
will be along soon. All are (or will be) available on Amazon and the usual
online retailers. Since these are large-print editions they are a bit pricey,
but may well be available on the shelves at your local library. So, check out
“The Hunting of Man” series—both figuratively and literally.