The Killing Desert

By Tony Masero

1888 - Mojave Desert. A simmering hundred and forty degrees in a dry waterless wasteland. So unbelievably hot you could fry eggs on a flat rock.
The man who stumbles out of the desert and into ex-Cavalry scout Cody Hartford’s campsite, drinks his canteen dry and then leaves behind a lot more than either of them bargain for. Trouble follows Cody as he walks into a case of mistaken identity, a lynch mob and an unhinged Wells Fargo detective with a deadly gun and madness in mind.
Forced to light out with a indentured Irish girl, Cody has to navigate a killing path through the desert to avoid a hell-bent posse and a murderous gunman who’s lost his heart and is crazy in love. There’ll be a lot of blood on the desert sand if Cody is to escape them all and leave the Mojave with his own heart still beating.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Masero
• Release date: Nov 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311609601

Tony Masero

It’s not such a big step from pictures to writing.And that’s how it started out for me. I’ve illustrated more Western book covers than I care to mention and been doing it for a long time. No hardship, I hasten to add, I love the genre and have since a kid, although originally I made my name painting the cover art for other people, now at least, I manage to create covers for my own books.A long-term closet writer, only comparatively recently, with a family grown and the availability of self-publishing have I managed to be able to write and get my stories out there.As I did when illustrating, research counts a lot and has inspired many of my Westerns and Thrillers to have a basis in historical fact or at least weave their tale around the seeds of factual content.Having such a visual background, mostly it’s a matter of describing the pictures I see in my head and translating them to the written page. I guess that’s why one of my early four-star reviewers described the book like a ‘Western movie, fast paced and full of action.’I enjoy writing them; I hope folks enjoy reading the results.