Halloween!!!!
I love this day that
rolls around about once a year. It’s the day that I can shout out that another
McBride novel is for sale on Amazon. That’s today! And in 2017 the day is—October
31---HALLOWEEN!!! Gotcha, didn’t I? J
Trick-or-treating
tiny goblins aside, my new story starts in a very Halloween-esque manner with a
damned scary meeting between a young newly-wed couple near New Braunfels and a
trio of Lipan Apache warriors looking for horses to steal, but perfectly
willing to demonstrate their brand of casual savagery when unexpected opportunity
presents itself. (I dare not call such a gruesome encounter serendipity)
The new book’s title is A Different Country Entirely
and it’s a Texas Ranger novel, quasi-western, quasi-military. It’s the
fictional telling of an historical event orchestrated by a cantankerous Texas
Ranger captain, James H. Callahan. If you watched the Lonesome Dove TV
miniseries, and remember Ranger Captains Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, you have
a fair notion of the real Captain Callahan. While my Apache head bad-ass is not
named Blue Duck, I have Wild Cat, a Black-Seminole historical bad-ass who
raised some hell in South Texas.
As a result of such
ongoing depredations, in 1855, Captain Callahan led 115 mounted
volunteers-early Texas Rangers—into the forbidden landscape of northern Mexico
to find and punish the Apache Indians who had been raping, murdering, burning,
stealing, and sometime simply taking women and children in Texas, and then
seeking sanctuary across the Rio Grande, the border separating Texas and
Mexico.
Callahan’s expedition
never confronted the marauding Apaches, but his young Rangers did cross paths
with several hundred Mexican soldiers, with very mixed, very violent results.
The real historical story is the exciting core of my more
far-reaching personalized retelling and elaboration of the recorded factual
expedition.
Even with a Halloween Book Opening, there are no ghosts or vamps or were-beasts. It is historical fiction
about Texas Rangers, after all. But there is a lot of action and a candid look
at Texas in 1855, which was not a place for the weak of heart— absolutely A Different
Country Entirely.
The paperback for $15
from Amazon would make a Christmas present that will keep someone in your
family saying, “What? Sorry, I was reading,” during the holidays. Promise. And
there’s a Kindle download for you for $5 so you can be the distracted one.
Double Dog Promise.
Here’s the long, but direct, link to
the page on Amazon:
I hope you'll take a look on Amazon. Try the "Look Inside" feature for a jump-start about those bad Apaches. You will immediately find yourself in midst of a something that will twist your innards.
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