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APPROPRIATE FORCE

In the dying West Texas town of Ojos Secos, justice isn't blind. It's armed.

Mercer Sample rolled into the Chihuahuan Desert looking for a cheap motel and a quiet night. Instead, he gets a front-row seat to a violent, precision extraction. A heavy-duty Silverado tears the security grate off the local hardware store, blows the floor safe, and drags the owner's beautiful, screaming wife into the pitch-black night.

The local law hides behind locked doors. The husband, Elias Vance, is left beaten, isolated, and desperate. He offers Mercer a fortune in hidden cash to track the notorious Dalton brothers across the badlands and bring his wife home.

But the desert sand doesn't lie, and the tire tracks tell a terrifyingly different story.

As Mercer and Vance push deeper into off-the-grid cartel territory, dodging sniper ambushes and burning wreckage, the illusion of the perfect marriage shatters. The physical evidence proves the terrified hostage isn't a victim at all. She's a calculating femme fatale, the architect of the heist, and she's heavily armed.

The truth destroys the desperate husband, forging him into a cold-blooded killer obsessed with revenge. Now, Mercer isn't leading a rescue mission-he's escorting a broken man on a suicide run. Trapped in the high peaks of the Chinati Mountains, the relentless pursuit culminates in a brutal, close-quarters tactical shootout inside an abandoned silver mine where loyalty is a liability, and betrayal carries a massive body count.

Appropriate Force is a modern noir crime thriller packed with blistering action, psychological suspense, and neo-western grit. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, Lee Child, and hardboiled vigilante justice.

Book details

• Full title: Appropriate Force
• Author: C Lowry
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142
• EAN: 9798233978074
• ID: 51474922
• Publisher: Chris Lowry
• Weight: 149 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. March 2026

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