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Craig Rainey

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in San Angelo, TX, The United States

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Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction

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December 2018

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Craig Rainey is an American actor, screenwriter, musician, and author known for creating gritty, cinematic stories rooted in hidden power, frontier violence, conspiracy, and survival. A Texas native with family roots tracing back to the original Stephen F. Austin settlers, Rainey draws heavily from a lifetime of real-world experience that includes military service, ranch work in South Texas, construction, and decades spent studying the darker machinery operating beneath modern American life.

Rainey is the creator of the Carson Brand series, a growing collection of grounded conspiracy thrillers blending cartel violence, political corruption, covert power structures, and lone-man survival against systems larger than himself. His western fictio ...more

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Average rating: 4.41 · 162 ratings · 17 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Stolen Valor: A Carson Brand Novel #1 4.48 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2019 — 7 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
	HooDoo War: A Tale of the Mason County War 4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings — 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
	Dark Motive: A Carson Brand Novel #2 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — 8 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
	Massacre at Agua Caliente: A Western Tragedy 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — 8 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
	Sovereign Rule: A Carson Brand Action Thriller (Carson Brand Action Thriller Series Book 4) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 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
	Reasonable Sin: A Carson Brand Novel #3 4.70 avg rating — 10 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
	Dark Motive: A Carson Brand Action Thriller it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Stolen Valor: A Carson Brand Action Thriller it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Reasonable Sin: A Carson Brand Action Thriller it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Reasonable Sin: A Carson Brand Novel #3 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 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

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Massacre at Agua Caliente - A Western Tragedy

Craig Rainey Published his first western novel in the Spring of 2018. Massacre at Agua Caliente - A Western Tragedy (Craig Rainey Publishing) is based upon the award-winning screenplay of the same title.

The Book Came from Craig Rainey's Roots

San Angelo, Texas was not much different in the ’60s, when I grew up there than it was in the late 1800’s and the early years of the twentieth century when my Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 26, 2020 10:28 • Tags: carson-brand, craig-rainey, massacre-at-agua-caliente, short-story, stolen-valor, tale-of-booze

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Carson Brand (2 books)
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Craig Rainey liked David Bryan's review of Stolen Valor: A Carson Brand Novel (Carson Brand Series Book 1): "Alright, there I was, totally enjoying this novel by Mr. Rainey, he showed restraint in describing fights and battle scenes, not having one or two Average Joes demolishing ten to twelve assailants at a time, well, until he later began doing just that" Read more of this review »
Jul 14, 2025 10:24AM · see review
Craig Rainey made a comment on David Bryan’s review of Stolen Valor: A Carson Brand Novel (Carson Brand Series Book 1) " David, I am sorry for the trouble you had reading my novel. I have completely reconfigured my novels. Two were republished prematurely. They are now c ...more "
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