Wise County Line

by James Wayland Long

The second series created by Texas storyteller James Wayland Long, Wise County Line is a rare combination combining suspense with true western flavor. Gamble Patterson, a local ranch heir and former Texas Ranger, is thrust center stage when he stumbles upon the body of a murder victim and then a second victim that was murdered thirty years ago. With an outstanding cast of support characters and Long's uncanny ability at describing the country that envelops his characters, the author puts the reader front and center in the place where he was raised. Long's plan is to hold Gamble Patterson ageless, seamless, and timeless to create a series in the same vein as Craig Johnson's "Longmire" and C.J. Box's "Joe Pickett". Centered around the famed Waggoner Mansion and leaning on nostalgia and yesteryear, Wise County Line is a moving journey about one man's epic quest to find himself. He lost his father, the former Wise County Sheriff TomRay Patterson who was killed in the line of duty and then lost his wife and infant daughter to a drunk driver. Driven by his loss and the fact that his father's killer was never caught, Gamble Patterson becomes one of the most prolific Texas Rangers in modern history, sending three men to Texas' Death Row before he finally calls it quits and moves back to his hometown. A sure fire hit series in the making, Wise County Line transports it's reader to a place in time when small town Texas was steady and simpler. Fueled by revenge, Gamble Patterson will have you cheering for him by the end of the first page. James Wayland Long took the literary world by storm with his first series, The 4 Counties Trilogy, and makes his way back into the spotlight four years later with Wise County Line. While 4 Counties is still a steady seller on the Amazon Kindle charts, Wise County Line has garnered critical claim and great reviews by the advanced readers and critics alike. Compared to the likes of McMurtry and McCarty, Long has somehow tapped into the soul of the place that raised him and Wise County Line will leave his readers wanting more Gamble Patterson.

325 pages, Paperback

Published January 6, 2020