Cowboys & Indians Magazine , A Most Anticipated Book of the Year "Dane Bahr always delivers explosive and thrilling novels, and The Dead Ringer looks to be no different." --Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books " The Dead Ringer is as fast as a bullet. I can't remember the last time a book took me on such a wild non-stop breathtaking ride. Kilt and Bonnie are two classic orphans on the road in a world of violence, madness, and surprising kindness." --Willy Vlautin, author of The Horse "Henry Miller said that in art, if you start with the drums, you have to end with the dynamite. In The Dead Ringer , Dane Bahr's opening percussion leads masterfully to the inevitable explosion. An immensely satisfying, powderkeg of a novel." --Callan Wink author of Beartooth: A Novel "Dane Bahr has poured lines of gasoline to a single point of ignition, struck a match, and sent fires racing down trails of past, present, and future.

The Dead Ringer is an epic of the American West." --David Joy, author of Those We Thought We Knew " The Dead Ringer offers a fresh take on the classic western genre. Dane Bahr's prose is damn near biblical. Same goes for his Lazarus-like protagonist, but the story is all True Grit . It's good to know there are books like this still out there." --Eli Cranor, Edgar Award winning author of Mississippi Blue 42.