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The Far Empty Hardback - 2016

by J. Todd Scott

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Reviewers described this as a gritty, atmospheric modern Western crime novel with a vivid West Texas setting and authentic law-enforcement detail. Many praised the multi-perspective storytelling and strong, muscular prose, but a sizable contingent criticized uneven pacing, mid-book repetition, and the book’s length. Opinions split on the violent content and the climax, yet overall it was seen as an impressive, if imperfect, debut that establishes a compelling world.

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"[So] good I wish I'd written it. The poetic and bloody ground of west Texas has given birth to a powerful new voice in contemporary western crime fiction."--Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire series

In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a small town into violent turmoil.

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as their efforts to uncover Murfee's darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect: Caleb's father and Chris's boss, the charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford "Judge" Ross.

Dark, elegiac, and violent, The Far Empty is a modern Western, a story of loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border. Told by a longtime federal agent who knows the region, it's a debut novel you won't soon forget.

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  • Title The Far Empty
  • Author J. Todd Scott
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition/Fi
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, NEW YORK
  • Publication date 2016-06
  • ISBN 9780399176340 / 0399176349
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.56 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Library of Congress subjects Texas, Murder - Investigation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016016458
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 05/01/2016, Page 27
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2016, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/11/2016, Page 0

About the author

J. Todd Scott has been a federal agent with the DEA for more than twenty years, working cases investigating international maritime smuggling, domestic meth labs, and Mexican cartels. He has a law degree from George Mason University and is a father of three. A Kentucky native, he now resides in the Southwest, which provided the backdrop for The Far Empty.
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