The Austin Takedown

Cash Boone counts 950 students every morning. Someone in Austin is counting them too.

The message arrives just before Cash discovers sabotage at the school he's sworn to protect. Whoever sent it knows the children's names, their classrooms, and their bus routes.

The school is leverage. Cash is the target.

Someone wants his family's river land-and the forty years of handwritten records his father left behind. Those notebooks could expose the lie beneath the claim. Now a hired crew has orders to find them and burn them.

With Texas Ranger Grady Cole beside him, Cash follows the money to Austin. Behind shell companies, legal filings, and respectable office doors, a woman has spent decades keeping her name off the record. Cash has found a trace of her. She knows he's looking.

Every hour he spends chasing proof is an hour someone can use against the people back home. But staying in Caldera means letting the woman who ordered the threats choose when the next one comes.

Cash knows how to survive an ambush. This fight demands something harder: evidence that will survive a courtroom-and witnesses who live long enough to testify.

His father kept the records. Cash intends to make them count.

The Austin Takedown is Book 3 of the Cash Boone Thrillers, a Texas crime thriller of stolen land, buried evidence, and a fight that reaches from a small-town school to the state capital. Read after The Caldera Siege and The Del Rio Extraction.