After the Burn The Reckon Broderick Westerns Book One: Some Men Ride for Law - He Rides for Justice

After The Burn

They burned his cabin to the ground and left him for dead. That was their mistake.

Craigston "Reckon" Broderick lost everything he loved in a single night of fire. What walked out of the ashes was harder, quieter, and impossible to stop. Now he rides alone, with one horse and one dog for company, and a reputation that arrives before he does.

Some men ride for the law. Reckon rides for justice, and the difference is measured in the men he has buried along the way.

His hunt for the outlaw Harlan Pike leads into Denver, a town grown fast and lawless on railroad money. But Pike is smart, patient, and certain no man alive can touch him. He kills without leaving a trail, buys the men who might stop him, and always stays one step ahead.

Someone with nothing left to lose has never hunted him.

The chase drives them west, across broken country and high passes, into Southern Oregon, where old debts finally come due, and only one of them will ride out. To finish it, Reckon will have to become the very thing the fire tried to make him.

After the Burn is the first novel in the Reckon Broderick Westerns, a saga of hard country, hard men, and the long shadow grief casts over a man set on doing right where doing right gets you killed. For readers of William W. Johnstone, Louis L'Amour, and the classic frontier traditions.

The trail turns. The debts still follow.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Christopher Reynolds Books
Published: 08/08/2026
ISBN: 9798951429186
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.79d