Peter Rennebohm

Gus Ivy was restless, so he thought he’d “test” retirement by spending the winter with friends in Arizona. Endless rounds of golf convinced him that such an idle life probably was not for him. On a particularly restless day, Gus visits his barber and discovers an obscure Sagebrush western written by a favorite author. He’s excited to add it to his collection, and negotiates a “buy” with Frank, the barber. Unfortunately, the sixty-year old Cavity Lake Gang has drawn the attention of a band of cutthroats who will stop at nothing to get their hands on Gus’s copy. He doesn’t know why the book is so valuable—only that he is determined to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Together with a mysterious woman from Montana, Gus and his new friend, Cassidy Bower set off on a quest that takes them to the Navajo Indian Nation in Northeast Arizona, and beyond. It’s a chilling race against a decades-old deadline and a bunch of ruthless killers—a race to solve a fascinating puzzle embedded within the book, but the end game may prove to be too costly as multiple deaths and a kidnapping litter their trail.