DEADFALL: A High Country Frontier Prequel

by Josh Jensen

A prequel to No Easy Way Back — winner of the Best Indie Book Award and a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award.
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Summer 1994.

Jack Hillman is divorced, missing a leg, and feeling like a stranger in his own hometown.

When word comes that his childhood friend vanished while chasing work in Idaho's Panhandle, Jack doesn't hesitate. He loads up the Silverado, dusts off his Special Forces training, and heads west looking for a man he hasn't spoken to in a decade.

He tells himself he's looking for a friend in Deadfall County. But really, he's trying to see if the man he once was is still in there.

176 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication October 7, 2026

About the author

Josh Jensen was thirteen when a murder rocked his hometown of Payson, Utah. The case stuck with him, planting the seed for a modern thriller with a Western soul set in his home state. That idea became his first novel — No Easy Way Back which went on to win a 2025 Best Indie Book Award (BIBA) in the action category.

These days, Josh balances a marketing career with coaching wrestling and escapes into the mountains whenever he can. Utah is home, and always will be.

You can contact him at jmjensenauthor@gmail.com or on Instagram @jmjensenbooks