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Also by J. Todd Scott:

Scar the Sky, September 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Call the Dark, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Lost River, July 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Lost River, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
This Side of Night, May 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
This Side of Night, July 2019
Hardcover
High White Sun, June 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
High White Sun, March 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Far Empty, March 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Far Empty, February 2018
Trade Size
The Far Empty, June 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

THIS SIDE OF NIGHT
By: J. Todd Scott

G.P. Putnam's Sons
July 2019
On Sale: July 16, 2019
464 pages
ISBN: 0735212910
EAN: 9780735212916
Hardcover
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Thriller Crime

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun.

In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging leader, Fox Uno, sees the attack for what it is: another salvo in the long-running battle for control of Nemesio itself; perhaps by a rival cartel, or maybe someone closer to home…

Across the Rio Grande, Sheriff Chris Cherry and his deputies America Reynosa and Danny Ford find themselves caught in Fox Uno’s escalating war with the recent discovery of five dead men at the river’s edge. But when El Paso DEA agent Joe Garrison’s own Nemesio investigation leads him into the heart of the Big Bend, he’s not ready to accept the cartel leader’s retreat or defeat. Not only does he suspect a high-profile drug task force in a neighboring county is corrupt, he can’t shake lingering doubts about the loyalty and motives of the young deputy, Ame Reynosa. And he won’t let Sheriff Cherry ignore them either.

In this pitiless land it’s kill or be killed, where everyone will make one final bloody stand to decide the fate of Nemesio, the law in the Big Bend, and most of all, the future of America Reynosa.