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Author Bob Madison, who often writes under the pen name Scott McCrea, has an upcoming novel that blends the Western and thriller genres.
Targets West, scheduled for publication in 2025's first quarter, is a modern-day tale. Here is part of the synopsis:
Lucas Wheeler is a rancher and horse breeder heading to Saudi Arabia, where he is about to sell purebred Arabian horses to Sheikh Kashif Rashid Al Marltaum. In New York, Lucas is contacted by the State Department with a request to report back all observations and significant data on the Sheikh, who, they believe, is secretly involved in terror cells located throughout the U.S.
Before Lucas can even begin his assignment, he is kidnapped by student radicals, chased while handcuffed through Central Park by on-the-take New York cops and nearly shot in London's poshest restaurant. It is only when Lucas is lured to Sheikh Kashif's outlandish Summer Palace hidden in the Arabian desert that he learns of a daring and brazen terrorist plot with devastating consequences for the entire Western world.
The western-thriller mix may strike some as unusual. It really isn't. From 1965 to 1969, The Wild Wild West television series combined spies with cowboys. It evolved into something very unusual and remains one of the best examples of the 1960s spycraze. (The Wild Wild West was set in the 1870s.)
Whether intentional or not, Madison's pen name evokes the name of actor Joel McCrea (1905-1990), an actor who worked in various genres. He concentrated on westerns for the later years of his acting career.
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