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I am the author of the Bishop Rider Books. A Better Kind of Hate, The Big Machine Eats, All of Them to Burn, Brand New Dark, Old Man Rider, The Abrum Files and Like-Minded Individuals.
See also: It was never about saving people.

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Been a bit, I see. You look good. Those new slacks? Anyway, I released another book and believe I failed to mention it here. I know. I know. Gasp! So, it's called OLD MAN RIDER and it's been out since October of 2022. It involves Bishop Rider, of course, and deals with not only his end of days, but his beginning too. I also hit other points of his life, middle points I guess you could call them, w Read more of this blog post »

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	A Better Kind of Hate (Bishop Rider Stories Book 1) 4.43 avg rating — 67 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Your Average Monster: A Bestiary of Horrors by Pete Kahle (Goodreads Author), Kya Aliana (Goodreads Author), D. Morgan Ballmer (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brand New Dark 4.51 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All of Them to Burn 4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Man Rider 4.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Abrum Files: A Bishop Rider Book 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Machine Eats (Bishop Rider Stories Book 2) 4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bishop Rider Lives: An Anthology of Retribution by Beau Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hector Acosta (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.94 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Lane Anthology: Volume One by Tim Jeffreys (Goodreads Author), James Everington (Goodreads Author), Matthew Lett 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like-Minded Individuals: A Bishop Rider Book 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Beau Johnson liked Michael Hicks's review of A Better Kind of Hate (Bishop Rider Stories Book 1): "Note: This review was posted to a previously published edition of A Better Kind of Hate Beau Johnson's debut collection, A Better Kind of Hate, contains 37 short stories, which sounds like a lot. However, Johnson's writing is lean and mean, and the ma" Read more of this review »
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Beau Johnson rated a book it was ok Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1) by Michael Robotham (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Robotham can clearly write, and GOOD GIRL BAD GIRL gets off to a decent start, but at about the halfway way point I stated to think some pages could have been chopped. Add in a bit of a shaky ending and this book was just okay. Unfortunate, really, b ...more
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Beau Johnson rated a book it was amazing The County Line: A Novel by Steve Weddle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Sometimes we think we know best. Cottonmouth Tomlin easily embodies both of these situations, and almost to his own detriment. Set in a bygone era, The County Line takes place when the Tommy Gun spit fire and unc ...more
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Beau Johnson rated a book liked it The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Beau Johnson rated a book liked it Come with Me by Ronald Malfi (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Some parts I liked better than others. Some parts dragged more than others. Your mileage will indeed vary, I believe.
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