This book is not an old west novels - it's a modern day mystery. Josh McGrady was a desert rat - that is he grew up in the Phoenix, Arizona area but loved the desert. Ironically after he joined the USMC and earned a Sniper-Scout position he was sent to Afghanistan and Iraq which were not his idea of desert. He met fellow sniper Bradley Massai in Afghanistan when they were assigned to Scout Sniper Platoon, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment...