{"product_id":"judas-star-9798295500886","title":"Judas Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. Lowry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grand Ozarks Media\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grand Ozarks Media\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Westerns - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudas Star \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe followed a light in the dark. He found a debt that only a bullet could pay.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrifting across the empty expanse of West Texas, former U.S. Marshal Eldridge Sample is looking for nothing more than a quiet trail. But when a brilliant, unblinking star hangs low over the horizon, curiosity pulls him off the path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't lead to a manger. It leads to a mud-chinked shack, a woman in labor holding a shotgun, and a husband who vanished on his way to pay the mortgage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiding into the mud-slicked town of Cross Creek to find the missing man, Sample uncovers a racket that is as efficient as it is cruel. In a town where the Banker spots the marks and the Sheriff takes a cut of the robbery, an honest man doesn't stand a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the corrupt law of Cross Creek has never met a man like Eldridge Sample.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith time running out and a life waiting to be born in the dark, Sample must dismantle the town's machinery of greed the only way he knows how: by dragging the guilty into the light and balancing the books with a Colt .45.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The bank is closed,\" Sample said. \"But the reckoning is open.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA tight, atmospheric noir-western novella that packs the punch of a heavy caliber round. The Star of Judas is a story of hard men, desperate hours, and the violent cost of redemption. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard's Valdez Is Coming and the gritty realism of True Grit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Ozarks Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860782534807,"sku":"9798295500886","price":690.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798295500886.webp?v=1769958559","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/judas-star-9798295500886","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}