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Broken Heartland
Broken Heartland
Broken Heartland
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Broken Heartland

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Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as Englishman, faces his toughest re-election challenge yet. The radical religious right is out to unseat him, their candidate an Iraq war hero. But Englishman's only available deputy isn't winning him votes. That very morning, while pursuing a vehicle, the hurried deputy rammed a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir.

Englishman's brother, Mad Dog, a born-again Cheyenne, rushes back from a quest to the Black Hills. He has had a premonition that the sheriff is in serious danger. Meanwhile, the sheriff's daughters, attending separate colleges, wake with similar fears, cut classes, and hurry home to keep their father safe.

The sheriff believes the girls are the ones in need of protection as election day grows ever wilder. A student smuggles a gun into the school and begins shooting and taking hostages. A private army has seized a nearby farm and holds citizens, including Mad Dog, against their will. And, when he finds some spare time, Englishman needs to clear up one little thing about his deputy's accident: Benteen County doesn't have a teen choir. All this by sundown. It's enough to make a sheriff wonder why he wants to serve another term.

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Release dateMar 24, 2009
ISBN9781615950867
Broken Heartland
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J. M. Hayes

J M "Mike" Hayes was born and raised on the flat earth of Central Kansas. He studied anthropology at Wichita State University and the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson with his wife and a small herd of German Shepherds.

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    I liked the main characters in this book (the only book in the series I have read) but the plot was ridiculous with every other person indiscriminately shooting their machine gun or throwing their grenade.If it had focused on the people a bit more and not a shoot at everything story, I might be continuing on to the next book, because I think these characters could be interesting.There was also an afterword by the author that may be saying all this mayhem was because he had been accused of writing cozy mysteries. Maybe I would have liked those better, but I am not willing to try after this book.

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