Hard Country

The novel is epic in book length and rotates between three generations of Kerney men starting in the post-Civil War era through WWI (1918). The segments describe their years spent on the plains of Texas through their eventual migration to what will become the Double K Ranch in the Tularosa Valley of......more

I picked up this book expecting a few hours of light reading about good guys in white hats and bad guys in black hats, with lots of fisticuffs and gunplay. It's not that kind of western. It's more of a pastoral novel, except that the US southwest is not pastoral. It is, as the title says, a hard cou......more

Hard Country is a sweeping epic of the American West that tells the story of imperfect people trying to settle a harsh country. Author Michael McGarrity, best known for his Kevin Kerney mystery series, is going back in time to the American origins of Kevin’s family. Hard Country follows Kerney’s ance......more

Hard Country is the first of a trilogy on the history of a family, a state and, to some extent, the nation. The family is that of McGarrity's main protagonist of his books, Kevin Kearney. Hard Country is very aptly named. The book covers the era from about 1870 to the first world war. It's how the f......more