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    Down Range: A Garrett Kohl Novel
    Down Range: A Garrett Kohl Novel
    Down Range: A Garrett Kohl Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    Down Range: A Garrett Kohl Novel

    Written by Taylor Moore

    Narrated by Jeremy Arthur

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “A riveting thriller with a family in crisis at the core. It's my kind of book.” —Brad Taylor, bestselling author of American Traitor

    In this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after his family

    From a former CIA intelligence officer and consultant for the Department of Defense comes the first in a series following a decorated undercover DEA special agent. Garrett Kohl has traveled the world—and fought in most of it—but it’s the High Plains of northwest Texas he calls home and dreams of returning to one day. Kohl is in the middle of an assignment in Afghanistan when his commander orders him back to Texas on a short mission expected to take a week at most. But Kohl is unsettled to discover that he’s moved from one kind of war to another.

    The once-peaceful ranching community he loves is under attack by a band of criminals who have infiltrated law enforcement, corrupted local businesses, and are now terrorizing Kohl’s own family. Hoping to prevent bloodshed, Kohl tries to resolve matters peacefully. But when the group strikes first, he has no choice but to go on the attack.

    Unfortunately for the criminal crew, besides being an elite undercover officer for the DEA, Garrett Kohl is a battle-hardened Green Beret who spent the better part of his career hunting terrorists. Although outnumbered and outgunned, Kohl knows the wild and forsaken Llano Estacado region of Texas better than anyone. And like so many trespassers before them, these murderers will find out the hard way that the only thing tougher than this land is the people who call it home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 3, 2021
    ISBN9780063066533
    Down Range: A Garrett Kohl Novel
    Author

    Taylor Moore

    Taylor Moore is the author of Ricochet, Firestorm, and Down Range, which was nominated for the Barry Award for Best First Novel, named a Strand Magazine Best Mystery of the year, and selected for the Texas Library Association’s Lariat Reading List. He is a sixth-generation Texan who grew up on a farm and ranch northwest of Houston and is a former CIA Intelligence Officer who worked in both analysis and operations and later consulted for the Department of Defense in Theater Security Cooperation, Force Protection, and Counternarcotics. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle with his wife and two children, where he is a full-time author, screenwriter, and speaker. Cold Trail is Moore’s fourth novel featuring Garrett Kohl.

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    • 5/5
      Fabulous … one of the best new series I’ve listened to recently. (And I listen to a lot.) The right blend of heart and action. And as a former Texan, I can say that the West Texas details are on point. Highly recommend.
    • 5/5
      Outstanding book!! The imagery, realness and depth
      Of the story is next level. I can’t wait for the next one to come out!
    • 4/5
      3.5* rounded up to 4* for good vibes and solid writing.

      The Hero’s Journey translated across the Texas badlands, plot infused effortlessly and unpretentiously with themes of loyalty, family, repair from trauma, refugee integration and humanity.

      A bit of shallow character and emotional stereotyping, but not annoyingly so.

      Great first novel from this promising writer with Jeremy Arthur doing a good job with the narration.
    • 5/5
      Great start from a new author and new series.
      Undercover DEA agent/green Beret and various other skills, returns home to Texas from Afghanistan with an orphan and winds up in the crosshairs of a dirty oil company, a lunatic oil executive and an up and coming drug cartel. Needless to say there is plenty of
      action.
    • 3/5
      It’s a pretty standard action thriller. And, it's not "Down Range", it's in Texas. There's so much action that action feels like normal...even the last two hours feels "normally" intense. Our hero is supposed to be protecting an Afghan boy from those who want him dead, but none of the Afghan villager bad guys can find him in Texas, so he's having a very good time there. There's some bad cartel guys, the local boss Hogg and a love interest. I'll read number two, it'll probably be fun.
    • 3/5
      Down Range is the first novel for the former CIA intelligence officer. Garrett Kohl is on a mission in Afghanistan spying on a group of terrorists when they starting killing a group of civilians. Although supposed to watch and not interfere, when a 10 year old boy survives the shooting and is running for his life, Kohl cannot not rescue him. This leads to an immediate reassignment back to the states with the boy to avoid an international incident.Home is Texas where his dysfunctional family is trying to survive the economic downturn of weak oil prices, danger of being caught in the web of a Mexican drug cartel and trying to stay away from local bad actors. Kolh's relationship with his father is strained but the Afghani boy, Asadi's, love of horses wins the old man over. Kohl's brother Bridger and former high school classmate, Lacey add family conflict and love interest to the plot.This area of the Texas Panhandle is under siege by a Mexican cartel and a local powerful oil man and Kohl, a former Green Beret and current DEA agent, is going to upset their plans. The pages fly by with lots of tension followed by lots of action. Asadi plays some important moments in the plot but maybe could have had more time with Kohn in his adventures.
    • 5/5
      A good, solid debut by author Taylor Moore, Down Range is a strong, action-packed start to a new series that has the promise of long-running success. Garrett Kohl is one of the good guys, and someone you will want to know better. Down Range, the first in the Garrett Kohl series, reminds me of a somewhat similar series by an author who has recently retired from writing. I have the feeling Taylor Moore and Garrett Kohl will fill that gap nicely.The story starts while Kohl is on assignment in Afghanistan, and his actions there result in him bringing a young Afghan boy back to Garrett’s childhood home in Texas to keep him safe. Safe may have been the plan, but the ranching community there is anything but safe. Drugs, cartels, criminals, corruption throughout the ranks of local officials and other ranchers.Down Range is non-stop, nail-biting, heart-stopping action, start to finish. But it’s not just a violent shoot-‘em-up. Characters have depth and are very well drawn. The credible plot moves quickly but smoothly, with twists and turns that keep you guessing (and afraid) who will survive.Thanks to Thrillerfest and William Morrow and Custom House for providing an advance copy of Down Range via NetGalley. It is an excellent, exciting beginning to a series I can’t wait to continue reading. All opinions are my own.