High white sun
(Book)

In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, new sheriff Chris Cherry still struggles to escape Ross's long, dark shadow. He's trying to modernize the department, bringing in new deputies America Reynosa and Ben Harper. But they're facing a town unwilling to change, friends and enemies unable to let go of the past, and the harsh limits of the badge. When a local Rio Grande guide is brutally and inexplicably murdered, their investigation is swept aside by a secretive federal agent. And Big Bend is threatened by dangerous men such as John Wesley Earl, a high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, and Thurman Flowers, a part-time pastor and full-time white supremacist of the violent Church of Purity.