Laredo

In a sun-blasted border town, the monsters don't hide in the dark—they hide in plain sight.

Mercer Sample spent twenty years tracking fugitives for the US Marshals. Today, he’s a cynical bounty hunter operating on the unforgiving edges of Laredo, Texas. He survives by reading people and understanding the ruthless mathematics of the border: keep your head down, collect the skip, and never ask questions. But when a routine hunt for a terrified, embezzling cartel accountant goes violently sideways, Mercer steps into a conspiracy that will drench the Texas asphalt in blood.

Cassidy Lane is walking the desolate, neon-lit truck stops of the Interstate 35 corridor with a bottle of whiskey and a loaded hand cannon. She’s using herself as bait, desperate to catch the elusive serial killer who butchered her sister.

But Mercer knows the terrifying truth: the "Laredo Killer" isn't a disorganized psychopath. He’s a ghost.

His name is Silas—a highly trained special operations veteran working as a cartel "cleaner." Silas is deployed to systematically erase women who inadvertently witness the underworld's multi-million-dollar bulk cash transfers. Worse, the cartel assassin is being fed his targets by the very police detectives sworn to protect the city.

Forced into a fractured, uneasy alliance, the burnt-out bounty hunter and the grief-fueled vigilante must go off the grid to hunt the hunter. Navigating a labyrinth of corrupt cops, three hundred thousand dollars in stolen cartel capital, and a heavily armed corporate assassin who leaves zero loose ends, Mercer and Cassidy must write their own laws. In a town where justice is bought and paid for, it comes down to basic math: kill the other guy first, or end up buried in the South Texas scrub brush.

LAREDO is a gritty, relentless modern western noir thriller that grabs you by the throat from the first page and doesn't let go.

Perfect for fans of:

Modern Westerns and Texas Noir

Cartel Thrillers and Vigilante Justice Action

Hardboiled Detective and Bounty Hunter Crime Fiction

Serial Killer Suspense and Police Corruption Mysteries

If you love the snappy, character-driven dialogue of Elmore Leonard, the atmospheric, hard-hitting tension of John D. MacDonald, and the cinematic grit of Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Yellowstone), you won't be able to put this book down.