Dead Man's Badge

When you dig your own grave, it always ends up ragged and shallow.Career criminal Longview Moody, on the run from killers, assumes his dead, twin brother's identity as the new Chief of Police of a Texas town that's being terrorized by a Mexican drug cartel. To pull off the deadly deception, Longview desperately works to become the kind of cop and man that his brother was. But when the two lives he's living converge, he's forced to embrace the violence within him to get justice...and vengeance. PRAISE FOR DEAD MAN'S BADGEIt's terrific. It's lean and smart and very good. I say, check it out. Joe LansdaleBrutal, vivid, and unforgettable...a modern-day western morality tale in crime-novel wrapping with a blood-red bow. This one will haunt you. Lee Goldberg, #1 NY Times bestselling authorRobert Dunn unloads both barrels - Dead Man's Badge is a fast, furious shootout from beginning to end. This tale of corrupt cops, cartel killers, and one bad guy just trying to make good, lingers like gun smoke. Bloody, dark, and pistol-whip smart, it's Border noir at its best. J. Todd Scott, author of THE FAR EMPTYRiveting thriller about coming back from the dead, revenge and redemption. The pages fly by even faster than the bodies pile up. DEAD MAN'S BADGE establishes Robert E. Dunn as a formidable new name in hard-boiled fiction. R.G. Belsky. author of YESTERDAY'S NEWS