TY - BOOK AU - Wortham, Reavis Z., TI - The Texas job T2 - Red River mystery SN - 9781464215704 AV - PS3623.O777 T49 2022 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Naperville, Illinois : PB - Poisoned Pen Press, KW - Texas Rangers KW - Fiction KW - Conspiracies KW - Texas KW - Historical fiction KW - fast KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Series information from author's website N2 - "Texas Ranger Tom Bell is tracking a fugitive killer when he rides into Pine Top, a hastily erected shanty-town crawling with rough and desperate men-oil drillers, come by the thousands in search of work. It soon becomes apparent that the lawman's poking around has irritated the wrong people, and when two failed attempts are made on his life, Bell knows that he's getting closer to finding out who is responsible for cheating and murdering the local landowners in order to access the rich oil fields flowing beneath their farms. When they ambush him for a third time while he's out with a local woman he's fallen for, they make the deadly mistake of killing her and leaving him alive"-- ER -