The great saga of an American ranching family that gripped readers in
the New York Times bestselling novel Hard Country and its sequel,
Backlands, concludes in The Last Ranch, the final, mesmerizing
novel in Michael McGarrity's powerful and richly authentic American West
trilogy.
When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the remote, beautiful San
Andres Mountains of New Mexico, honorably discharged after serving in
Sicily during World War II, he must not only endeavor to recover
physically and emotionally from a devastating combat injury, but he must
also fight attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for
expanded weapons testing. Yet keeping his land is only half the battle
as he struggles with an aging father no longer able to carry his load at
the ranch, an ex-convict intent on killing him, and a failing
relationship with a woman he dearly loves. As Matt's personal and family
life unravels, a punishing drought pushes him to the brink of ruin, and
he is forced to draw upon all his mental and physical resources to keep
his world--and the people in it--from collapsing.
Spanning the era from World War II to the end of the Vietnam conflict,
The Last Ranch enthralls with the deeply rich, sometimes heartbreaking
Kerney family saga as it steps brilliantly into the
mid-twentieth-century world of the new American West.
