Comrade Cowboy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798295567803)

Genre: Modern Western Thriller / International Action Adventure

Headline:

Yellowstone meets The Revenant in the Russian Far East. A cowboy with nothing to lose takes a job in the deadliest place on earth.

Book Description:

The American West is gone. The Wild East is just waking up.

Cal Henderson is a cowboy without a home. After corporate raiders foreclose on his family's Montana ranch, stripping him of his land and his legacy, Cal is left with nothing but his grandfather's Bible and a refusal to quit. Desperate for a paycheck, he accepts a job that sounds too good to be true: managing a massive cattle start-up operation. The catch? It's in Primorsky Krai-the frozen, lawless frontier of the Russian Far East.

He arrives to find not a ranch, but a ruin. His boss is Dmitri Volkov, a paranoid ex-FSB Colonel with a basement full of secrets and a target on his back. The livestock are starving, the fences are rotting, and the neighbors are the Bratva-a ruthless Russian mafia cell led by a boss who demands a blood tax on every calf born.

As the "White Death"-a brutal Siberian winter-descends, Cal finds himself trapped between the freezing wilderness and the organized crime syndicates circling the property. To survive, he must forge an alliance with the terrifying Volkov and his estranged daughter, Katya, turning a ragtag crew of locals into a ranching army.

From fighting off Ussuri brown bears with a lariat to defending the herd from machine-gun-toting gangsters in a blizzard, Cal discovers that the cowboy code has no borders. But in a land where contracts are signed in blood and loyalty is a liability, Cal Henderson will have to decide how far he is willing to go to save a ranch that isn't his.

Elmore Leonard's grit meets John D. MacDonald's suspense in this high-octane modern western. Comrade Cowboy is a story of survival, redemption, and the violent clash between the American cowboy spirit and the cold iron of Russia.