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"Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West." --The Shootist

Red River is one of the greatest westerns ever told, a novel that that became the classic John Wayne movie in 1948. Now award-winning Johnny D. Boggs presents a powerful sequel--destined to be a Western masterpiece in its own right.

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Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Red Riverhero Thomas Dunson. Twenty years later Matt has two strapping sons of his own and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns.

While the deadly dangers of storms and rustlers gather around them, an act of passion and violence from within the drive--and from within the Garth family--leaves Matt fighting for his life, close to where his father was buried by the Red River. When Matt gets back up, he must finish the drive--and fight his worst enemies and even his own blood kin before it ends in a battle of guns, tears, and justice.

"Johnny Boggs has produced another instant page-turner. . .don't put down the book until you finish it." --Tony Hillerman onKillstraight

"Johnny D. Boggs tells a crisply powerful story that rings true more than two centuries after the bloody business was done." --The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courieron The Despoilers

Raves For The Westerns Of Johnny D. Boggs

"Another dramatic story by a finalist for the Spur award of Western Writers of America." --Amarillo Globe-News (on Once They Wore the Gray)

"An entertaining western in the classic mold. The characters possess enough human frailty to be believable, the author includes interesting stuff on the weaponry of the times, and there is enough gunplay to satisfy genre purists." --Booklist onTen and Me

"Boggs has once more written a humdinger of a book with wonderful characters, even the villains. The Despoilers tears at one's heart, which is what really good fiction should do." --Roundupon The Despoilers

"Boggs' unique approach to the Lincoln County War's legal skirmishing is both eye-opening and memorable." --True Weston Law of the Land

"A finely crafted historical novel with fully developed characters playing out their lives against the backdrop of early Texas settlement." --American Cowboyon Spark on the Prairie

"Boggs delivers a colorful, clever and arresting tale." --Santa Fe New Mexicanon Camp Ford

Booklist has called Johnny D. Boggs "among the best western writers at work today." He won the prestigious Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2006 for his novelCamp Ford, and in 2002 for his short story "A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing." In 2012,West Texas Kill was awarded the Spur Award for Best Original Paperback. His novelsTen and Me and The Hart Brand were Spur finalists in 2000 and 2007, and he won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award in 2004 for his novelSpark on the Prairie. He was also awarded True West Magazine's Best of the West Award "Best Living Fiction Writer," 2008. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Lisa Smith; son, Jack Smith Boggs; and basset hound, June.