Ace Atkins is the author of eight novels, including his latest, Infamous, from G.P. His family is a bit dysfunctional and his friend struggling to … I love Ace Atkins books.This is the first Quinn Coulson . Ace Atkins returns with an extraordinary new series. Ace Atkins's `The Ranger" features the main character of Quinn Colson.Quinn is an Army-Ranger. Jericho is a small Mississippi town which has seen better days. A former journalist who cut his teeth as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune, he published his first novel, Crossroad Blues, at 27 and became a full-time novelist at 30. Ace Atkins (born June 28, 1970) is an American journalist and author. Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune before he published his first novel, Crossroad Blues, in 1998.He became a full-time novelist at the age of 30. Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson novels, the first two of which—The Ranger and The Lost Ones—were nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (he also has a third Edgar nomination for his short story, “Last Fair Deal Gone Down”).
Coulson is a Ranger on leave to attend his uncle's funeral. Putnam’s Sons. “The Ranger is a tough, violent thriller set in contemporary Mississippi, with the feel of classic westerns like Shane and High Noon.
He returns home to the hill country of Mississippi. Here he finds his uncle,the longtime county sheriff,dead by his own hand,or that is what he is told. “The Ranger is a tough, violent thriller set in contemporary Mississippi, with the feel of classic westerns like Shane and High Noon. I've read it before and I probably will again. To Quinn Colson, it's home-but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan. Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West.