{"product_id":"desert-run-c-lowry-9798295822704","title":"Desert Run","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDESERT RUN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Modern Western Noir Thriller of Corruption, Manhunts, and Survival in the New Mexico Badlands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe desert doesn't care who you are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It only cares whether you live long enough to cross it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Carter used to wear a badge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former U.S. Marshal with a reputation for getting the job done, Carter now makes a rough living chasing skips, bail jumpers, and men foolish enough to run. Broke, bruised, and one bad month from disaster, he follows a small-time fugitive into the scorched emptiness of southern New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen everything changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful federal judge is assassinated. Within minutes, Carter's face is blasted across encrypted networks and bounty boards across the Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWANTED: JACK CARTER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e$800,000 DEAD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e$200,000 ALIVE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow every bounty hunter, cartel gunman, mercenary crew, and crooked cop in the region is hunting him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Carter knows one thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen with that kind of money don't want justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey want silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFramed for murder and marked for execution, Carter is forced into a brutal run across the badlands-through dying towns, abandoned mining corridors, cartel backroads, and blood-soaked desert highways. Alongside Sarah Hayes, a hard-edged landowner with her own score to settle, Carter uncovers a conspiracy involving stolen water rights, lithium fortunes, judicial corruption, and killers paid to erase anyone in the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutnumbered and cut off, Carter will have to use every trick he learned wearing the badge... and every dirty lesson he learned after losing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause in the desert, there are only two kinds of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDESERT RUN\u003c\/strong\u003e is a gritty, action-packed modern western noir thriller perfect for fans of Lee Child, C.J. Box, Taylor Moore, S.A. Cosby, Don Bentley, and neo-western suspense packed with relentless tension, gunfights, conspiracy, and revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. Lowry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295822704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Ozarks Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45d","brand":"C. Lowry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665532457215,"sku":"9798295822704","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desert-run-c-lowry-9798295822704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}