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Max McCoy

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Max McCoy is an award-winning journalist and author. He’s won awards for his reporting on unsolved murders, serial killers, and hate groups. In addition to his daily newspaper work, Max has written for publications as diverse as American Photographer, True West, and The New Territory. He’s the author of four original Indiana Jones adventures for Lucasfilm/Bantam and the novelization of the epic TNT miniseries, Into the West. His novels, including Damnation Road, have won three Spur awards from the Western Writers of America. His novels, Hellfire Canyon and Of Grave Concern, have also been named Kansas Notable Books by the state library. He's a tenured professor of journalism at Emporia State University, in east central Kansas, where he spec ...more

The Ghost Rifle 5.25.21

Here’s the cover of my new novel, which goes on sale soon. What to say? It’s always difficult to talk about a new book, because it’s all such shameless self-promotion. But I can say that people I trust tell me it might be my best western novel. So, there’s that.

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Published on May 16, 2021 20:20
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“She remembers that American airplanes had dropped handbills a few days before the bombing warning Hiroshima residents to evacuate because “something terribleâ€� was going to happen to the city. But, she says, the population was forbidden by law from reading the handbills, which were scooped up by the authorities.”
Max McCoy, Zero Minutes to Midnight

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