A novel of the contemporary American West, Spoon tells the story of Arcus Witherspoon, a mysterious half-black, half-Indian, oddly clairvoyant man searching the West for his roots. Hitchhiking near Hardin, Montana, Spoon falls in with a ranching family struggling to keep their ranch afloat amidst the pressures of hard economic times and an encroaching coal company. Proving himself a gifted ranch hand and mentor, Spoon charges himself with rescuing...

The African-American bounty hunter, CJ Floyd of Denver, investigates the slaying of a black rodeo rider. One suspect is a jealous white rider, another a woman, a third a speculator who wanted the rodeo rider's land, said to contain diamonds.

Bounty-hunting CJ Floyd is hired to find the daughter of a federal judge after she becomes involved with a radical ecology group that has plans to destroy Colorado's ranching industry, but when he finds her dead, he's faced with the more dangerous mission of tracking down her killing.

CJ Floyd is 22 years old, but he seems much older somehow and certainly more disillusioned than his peers in early-1970s Denver. He finds an emotional anchor and kindred soul in Wiley Ames, a World War II amputee and antique dealer. When Wiley is murdered and his case unsolved, CJ vows to find the killer; in the meantime, he throws himself into his uncle Ikes bail-bond business, if only to push his painful memories into the shadows. Five years later...

"A historical thriller that takes streetwise but reluctant investigator CJ Floyd into the bowels of one of the most intriguing assassination cases in world history as he tries to find out how JFK was set up for the kill and who really killed him"--Provided by publisher.

Reluctantly agreeing to help a patient to protect his flock of valuable gamecocks, Dr. Carmen Nguyen discovers that the birds, who were raised on uranium-rich soil, hold chromosomal information that a ruthless businessman is trying to steal.