For Agents and Editors:
Welcome to my passion.
It is Texas and epic adventures and reading and writing. It is combining my career with my heritage. It is improving my writing everytime I sit down at a keyboard.
It is The Ranger Chronicles.
I am the literary offspring of Leon Uris, Bernard Cornwell, and Clive Cussler. Cussler taught me about multiple story lines and how to weave them together. Cornwell taught me how to focus on plot while using the lore of historical settings to support the story. Uris showed me how to make readers care about characters. All of them offered lessons on pacing and action sequences.
But it was Isaac Millsaps who provided my inspiration. You may not have heard of him, but you can find his name engraved inside the shrine at the Alamo, where he died on March 6, 1836. I am one of his descendants.
Hostilities, the first book of the The Ranger Chronicles, is complete at 137,000 words. It will fit comfortably on bookstore shelves alongside Cornwell's and Steven Pressfield's historical fiction, Cussler's and Dale Brown's adventure fiction, Frederick Forsyth's action thrillers, and James Carlos Blake's edgy, lyrical, violent fiction. It will also appeal to western fans who have fueled the remarkable career longevity of writers like Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Zane Grey, Matt Braun, and William W. Johnstone.
I have begun work on a second book and compiled a timeline of plots for the remainder of the series.
If you are interested in representing or publishing Hostilities, please contact me and I would be delighted to send you sample chapters, a synopsis, or the entire manuscript.
Thank you very much for visiting.
David Pyke
