The rest of America is waiting in bread lines and crowding into soup kitchens, but the Texas oil country is booming. Fred Bean brings 1930s Longview to life, in all its brawling, gutsy, wretched glory.Small-time wildcatter Bill Dodd has secretly acquired the oil lease to the property adjoining H. L. Hunt's latest gusher. It promises to make Dodd a millionaire. Only three other people know about it - Dodd's wife, a shady oil speculator, and a young woman named Molly Brown. Before Dodd can register the leases with the county, he is gunned down and Hunt's company takes over the land. Texas Ranger Lee Garrett is sent to investigate. He finds a lot more than he bargained for, uncovering the first East Coast organized crime racket in Texas.The only person Garrett can trust is Molly, a young prostitute from Brooklyn. As a forty-year-old bachelor, he is falling hard for her, even though she is a witness in his protection. Even though she may be the temptress who could get him killed. Read Less