I’m thrilled to report that my last book STRONG JUSTICE, the second to feature female Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, was named a Top Thriller of the Year by Library Journal.  This is an incredible honor, especially given only five titles receive such distinction.

To check out the entire list and others, click this link and happy reading!

Strong at the Break by Jon Land

Fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in her most personal and desperate adventure yet, an adventure that has its roots in a gunfight years before in which her father shot down the cult-like leader of a separatist church.

Two decades later that man’s son, Malcolm Arno, has become head of a militia movement bent on unleashing chaos and anarchy across the country. With all the guns and money he needs to unleash a second Civil War, nothing seems to be standing in Arno’s way. Until his actions run him afoul of Caitlin Strong.

Already mired in one investigation of drug smuggling over the U.S.-Canadian border and another involving an Iraqi war veteran who claims the army is trying to kill him, Caitlin finds herself embroiled in the search for the kidnapped son of her sometime lover, former outlaw Cort Wesley Masters. When the missing boy’s trail leads straight to Malcolm Arno’s fortified Texas compound, the three disparate trails Caitlin has been following converge in an explosion of violence that will put her teachings to the ultimate test.

From the frozen rivers at the border with Canada to the desert wastelands of Mexico, the stage has been set for a battle like none neither Caitlin nor Cort Wesley has ever faced before where the stakes are nothing less than the survival of America as we know it.

I wanted to wish all my fans and readers the happiest and healthiest of holidays. And not just my fans, but all fans of the thriller genre and the authors who have helped define it.

I’m proud to count as my friends five of those authors–Steve Berry, James Rollins, David Morrell, Doug Preston and Andy Harp–who just returned from a USO tour of Iraq, meeting and greeting the troops, in what was deemed Operation Thriller.

Those five are terrific human beings as well as great writers, and there is no better example for the season than the generosity and sacrifice they demonstrated. So in the weeks and months to come we should all hold ourselves to their standard, not just this season but for many more to come.

It’s snowing here in Providence right now, a perfect night to add some logs to the fire and use this keyboard to spin some tales to keep you entertained on nights just like it.

Back to you soon. Jon