Things aren’t always easy for the Sheriff of Dead Oak, Texas. Cybernetically modified biker gangs roam the skies, dangerous outlaws prowl the streets, and gunslingers threaten the delicate balance of a Texas gone sour. J.D. doesn’t mind. He’ll hold hard the line of justice, no matter what it takes.
Sometimes things aren’t so simple.
When a rancher is murdered, it’s going to take all of J.D.’s skills as a Texas Ranger to track the killer. Every turn he makes he find more threads of a massive conspiracy that could tear his town apart. Every discovery leads him down the darker path of his own past.
And he’s not the only one doing some tracking. A man in black is on his trail.
There’s only one thing J.D. knows for sure: One way or another, there’s going to be Justice in an Age of Metal and Men.
Anthony W. Eichenlaub's shorter works have appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, including A Punk Rock Future, Fell Beasts and Fair, and On-Spec Magazine. His novels and novellas are absurdly fun serious science fiction involving sci-fi westerns and wildly irresponsible scientists.