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Murphy: U.S. Marshal: Dead Man's Delta: A Western Adventure
Some men hunt fugitives for money. Others hunt them because too many bodies fall when nobody does.
U.S. Marshal Murphy has transported killers, thieves, and war men across half the country, and he’s learned one hard truth along the the most dangerous prisoner is usually the one who smiles while the irons go on.
Bastian Sterling is no outlaw drifter. He’s educated, polished, and worth a fortune to the wrong people alive. Somewhere in the Louisiana delta, powerful men want him back badly enough to burn through anyone standing between them and the chain on his wrists. By the time Murphy realizes how far those men are willing to go, the river is already on fire and the swamp ahead is closing around them.
Now a federal marshal and the prisoner chained to him are running through flooded bayous, dead-end channels, and lawless trading posts where loyalty changes hands quicker than money. Every mile south tightens the noose, and Murphy begins to understand that this transport was never meant to reach New Orleans intact.
The delta doesn’t forgive mistakes. And somewhere in the darkness, men with dogs and rifles are already on the hunt.
DEAD MAN’S DELTA is a hard-driving frontier thriller packed with swamp-country pursuit, brutal close-quarters violence, and a lawman who refuses to quit, no matter the odds.
U.S. Marshal Murphy has transported killers, thieves, and war men across half the country, and he’s learned one hard truth along the the most dangerous prisoner is usually the one who smiles while the irons go on.
Bastian Sterling is no outlaw drifter. He’s educated, polished, and worth a fortune to the wrong people alive. Somewhere in the Louisiana delta, powerful men want him back badly enough to burn through anyone standing between them and the chain on his wrists. By the time Murphy realizes how far those men are willing to go, the river is already on fire and the swamp ahead is closing around them.
Now a federal marshal and the prisoner chained to him are running through flooded bayous, dead-end channels, and lawless trading posts where loyalty changes hands quicker than money. Every mile south tightens the noose, and Murphy begins to understand that this transport was never meant to reach New Orleans intact.
The delta doesn’t forgive mistakes. And somewhere in the darkness, men with dogs and rifles are already on the hunt.
DEAD MAN’S DELTA is a hard-driving frontier thriller packed with swamp-country pursuit, brutal close-quarters violence, and a lawman who refuses to quit, no matter the odds.
165 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 6, 2026
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