Blanco County, Texas
2 primary works • 4 total works
Book 5
The National Weapons Alliance rally in support of every American's god-given right to carry a concealed automatic weapon is meant to garner huge publicity, and the centrepiece of the event is none other than the NWA's newest spokesman, handsome country superstar Mitch Campbell. What no one suspects is that the Stetson-wearin', gun- totin', boot-scootin' Mitch Campbell is a fraud. His name is really Norman Kleinschmidt, a former snowboarder from Vermont and someone from his past is about to make this secret a big, big problem. When a dead immigrant turns up days before the rally, and game warden John Marlin starts to poke around, events begin to spiral out of control. Events that promise to bring down the carefully marketed Mitch Campbell, and the NWA along with him.
Book 6
When televangelist Peter Boothe decides to build a megachurch on the banks of the Pedernales River, he thinks his biggest problem will be a few unhappy neighbours. However, when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a rare fossil on the construction site - a discovery that could lead to plenty of embarrassing Darwinian publicity - the cover-up begins. Soon, Farley is dead, shot in the back with an arrow, and Game Warden John Marlin is asked to help with the case.What he and the local deputies find is a suspect list of biblical proportions: Could it have been the bitter geology professor? The private fossil collector with a somewhat unusual fetish? The minister's wife who takes the Commandments rather lightly? Or the geriatric environmentalist with a mean right hook? Nothing is sacred in Rehder's most laughable satire yet, a twisted tale of greed, corruption, infidelity, and, yes, palaeontology.
Blanco County, Texas; It's the week before deer hunting season, as close to a statewide holiday as you get in Texas, and the locals are getting restless. More than a few people are out at night spotlighting deer from their pickups, trying to get a jump on the hundreds of hunters that will be out come Sunday. Game Warden John Marlin has his hands full with poaching complaints coming in faster than he can write out-of-season tickets. Then a call of a different sort comes in: a man in a deer suit is shot at the Circle S ranch and a massive wide-eyed buck deer is prancing about the pasture in a love-sick frenzy.
Sometimes things can get a little wild in Blanco County, Texas. Investigating claims that a tall, beautiful blonde has been roaming the woods and seducing local hunters, Texas game warden John Marlin becomes concerned when one of the hunters turns up dead.