Pecos Moon

The West Texas desert is familiar territory to all manner of bandits, desperados, Indian

raiders…and a serial killer! The gruesome murders of young women by a savage predator,

known only as the Fort Davis Butcher, puts famed outlaw hunter Johnny Madrid on his trail.

Madrid, a former Texas Ranger and now a deputy U.S. marshal, must decipher the

evidence leading to some shocking conclusions. In his latest novel, “Pecos Moon,” veteran

crime writer Tim Younkman introduces Madrid, whose exploits include a shootout with

legendary Texas train robber and killer Sam Bass, ending the bandit’s career…and his life.

The investigation leads Madrid across the vast expanse of Texas where he corners the

Butcher and then discovers another, even more diabolical killer described in the press as the

“Servant Girl Annihilator.” This new killer has been loosed on the state capital, bludgeoning his

way through the upscale neighborhoods of Austin, leaving mutilated women in his wake.

When his own family is threatened, Madrid discovers the link between the Butcher and

the Annihilator leading to a final highly personal and most deadly confrontation. Johnny Madrid

is a rare breed of tough Western lawman, a mixture of European Spanish, Bayou Cajun, and

Mexican heritage, who fashioned a legend and legacy across the burgeoning frontier, an enforcer

of the law who knows how to bend it to achieve justice, and definitely a man one cannot forget.

In “Pecos Moon,” Younkman captures the elements that drew men and their women to the desert

plains of West Texas as they forged a promising new world from their dust-coated past.