Dwight Holing

For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffel bag. He's been trained to kill but was never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the...

Set in 1968, Nick Drake is a troubled Vietnam War veteran seeking redemption as a game warden in a quiet land. But when a fighter pilot from a nearby air force base mysteriously plummets onto one of his refuges, he is plunged into a deadly showdown with the military. A vexing mystery involving...

New Badge. Old Blood. In the High Lonesome where secrets kill, the only thing shorter than a rookie Sheriff's term is his life expectancy. Nick Drake has traded his wildlife ranger uniform for a Sheriff’s star—but the unforgiving territory doesn't offer election honeymoons.

Two desperate journeys across the American West. One a high-stakes manhunt, the other a father's fierce fight for his son. Both are on a collision course with death. When a charismatic Native rights activist is accused of murder, he flees into the wilderness—and takes wildlife ranger Loq’s...

When US Fish & Wildlife Ranger Nick Drake gets a beautiful and impetuous new supervisor, he quickly becomes pulled into a physical and emotional cauldron after she orders him to guide her down a dangerous and deadly river....

Living is hard on the high lonesome, but dying is easy. When two of Nick Drake’s oldest Paiute friends disappear during a robbery of ancient relics that leads to a double murder, his race to find them puts him on a collision course with an obsessed killer....

Trouble doubles down on wildlife ranger Nick Drake. In the latest novel in the highly acclaimed contemporary western thriller series, a mysterious Native American pleads with Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins. At the same time, an arsonist goes on a rampage. As Nick mounts a...

Nick Drake, a hero to believe in, is back! A contemporary western thriller. It's 1969 and spring finally comes to the lonesome Oregon high desert after an especially bitter winter, but for every new beginning, something old must give way. Someone is poisoning wild horses and a vicious killer...

Puts the "con" in Silicon Valley. Jack McCoul traveled the world running elaborate swindles. Now, he's settled down and trying to go straight. The trouble is, dead bodies and a homicide cop with a grudge keep getting in the way. McCoul is trying to cash in on a high-tech start-up when his past...

Hollywood comes to the High Lonesome to make a Western, but not all the showdowns and bodies that fall are make-believe. Nick Drake confronts a double-feature of murder and mysticism when Sheriff Pudge Warbler enlists him to catch a killer among the movie stars and film crew turning Harney...

A murder. A land grab. A won’t see it coming ending. The explosive return of Nick Drake.