Strong As Steel
A Caitlin Strong Novel
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4.1 • 16 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
Tough-as-nails Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in this electrifying ninth installment of the series, by USA Today bestselling author Jon Land
1994: Texas Ranger Jim Strong investigates a mass murder on a dusty freight train linked to a mysterious, missing cargo for which no record exists.
The Present: His daughter, fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, finds herself on the trail of that same cargo when skeletal remains are found near an excavation site in the Texas desert. She’s also dealing with the aftermath of a massacre that claimed the lives of all the workers at a private intelligence company on her watch.
These two cases are connected by a long buried secret, one that men have killed and died to protect. Caitlin and her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters must prove themselves to be as strong as steel to overcome a bloody tide that has been rising for centuries.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Land toggles smoothly between plotlines in his solid 10th thriller featuring third-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (after 2017's Strong to the Bone). In a prologue set in 1959 Turkey, a freighter, whose entire crew is dead, crashes into a dock. Flash forward to 1994 Pecos County, Tex., where Caitlin's father, Jim, checks out a freight train whose five crew members were murdered and dumped alongside the train, together with the corpses of two men who appear to belong to a Mexican drug cartel. In one of the train's cars, Jim finds three more bodies, with no apparent cause of death. In the present, Caitlin joins Capt. Bob McNelly, of the Texas Criminal Investigations Division, in his attempt to serve a search warrant on Communications Technology Providers, an IT firm. That assignment goes south rapidly when the pair come under fire from professional gunmen who massacred the business's employees. The less than plausible resolution of the various story threads detracts from the suspense and tension of what's come before. Still, Land fans should be satisfied.
