The Ranger
- Authors: Ace Atkins
- Series: Book 1 in the Quinn Colson series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
- Rank:Top 200 in Best Crime Action & Adventure on AmazonTop 1000 in Best Mystery Action & Adventure on Amazon
- Rating: 4 based on 3,926 reviews
- Release Date: June 9, 2011
- Print length: 352 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
From the acclaimed, award-winning author comes an extraordinary new series about a real hero, and the real Deep South.
Ace Atkins returns with an extraordinary new series. Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, it's home-but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan.
Now an Army Ranger, he returns to a place overrun by corruption, and finds his uncle, the county sheriff, dead-a suicide, he's told, but others whisper murder. In the days that follow, it will be up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family, his friends, his town, and not least about himself. And once the truth is discovered, there is no turning back.
Accolades
Praise for The Ranger
With terrific, inflected characters, and a dark, subtle sense of place and history, The Ranger is an exceptional novel.
Atkins has written a bunch of great thrillers, but this one sets up a series that should push him to the top of the bestseller list.
One of the best crime writers at work today.
[His] estimable ranger may bring to mind Lee Child’s hard fisted, soft hearted Jack Reacher, which is entirely a good thing.
Give this one to Stephen Hunter fans who like fast-moving plots and decisive good guys facing down evil.
Atkins kicks off a new series with a solid action packed yarn...Greg Iles fans will find much to like.
Goes for extreme thrills, complemented by in-depth character studies and a view to the motives that turn ordinary people corrupt. Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Greg Iles's Penn Cage will find a kindred spirit in U.S. Army Ranger Quinn Colson, Atkins's new take-charge hero.
A dark, headlong crime story set in the Mississippi hill country and teeming with corrupt officials, murderous meth dealers and Southern femmes fatales.
Has the down-and-dirty vibe of a ’70s drive-in action picture.
Southern-fried noir.
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