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The Lone Star Ranger
First published 1915
A gunfighter forced outside the law is given an opportunity to work with the Texas Rangers against an organised criminal network. To succeed he must move among men who would kill him if they discovered his purpose, while deciding whether service to the law can genuinely separate him from the violent reputation that made him useful in the first place.
The undercover campaign takes place in a Texas frontier where distance, weak institutions and local alliances allow outlaw groups to flourish. The novel combines pursuit and infiltration with a story of redemption, asking whether a man shaped by gun violence can use the same abilities to restore order rather than deepen lawlessness.
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