“Atkins can write rings around most of the names in the crime field.” — Elmore Leonard “Atkins has solidified his place alongside Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos as one of our most important crime writers.” — Associated Press Every year, Ace Atkins’s novels win extraordinary critical acclaim, awards, inclusion on year’s-best lists. But he has never written anything like The Ranger: the first of a remarkable new series about a real hero, and the real Deep South. 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.
