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Christopher Ray

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in The United States

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https://christopherraywrites.beehiiv.com/

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Westerns, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Cormac McCarthy
Larry McMurtry
Ron Hansen
S.A. Cosby
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Christopher Ray has worked construction since the day he graduated high school, chasing jobs across the country — a working life that's put him in more corners of America than most people ever see. Growing up in rural Alabama, days spent outdoors meant days spent in his own head, and the habit of imagining never left him. He's been collecting songs and story ideas since he was a boy, filling in the empty spaces the road and the woods left for him.
He grew up on Louis L'Amour, and that early diet of westerns still shows — his own fiction lives at the crossroads of western, Southern noir, and stories of faith tested hard, where the land and the people are cut from the same cloth.
When he isn't writing fiction, he's writing lyrics — country, gos ...more

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	The First Warrant: A Walker Davis Western 4.20 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
	Blood Territory: A Walker Davis Western 3.38 avg rating — 8 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
	Dead Man's Trail: A Walker Davis Western 4.40 avg rating — 5 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
	Eli Creed (The Eli Creed Trilogy Book 1) 3.75 avg rating — 4 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
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	Midnight 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Eli Creed : The Long Ride (The Eli Creed Trilogy Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
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Great read!! I really enjoyed this and ready for the next book in the series. The hype was not hype at all but preparation for an amazing saga.
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