Mustang War

In this contemporary Western adventure by award-winning author Frank Roderus, a catastrophic collision of two different worlds leaves a woman dead in the Nevada desert and a man running for his life, armed only with his wits and a fury to live.

JoLynn Weaver and Oliver Bendix are committed young environmentalists who put their money and their time where their beliefs are. Bill and Jim Beale are fourth-generation cattlemen who are desperately trying to hold together the family ranch in the fact of shrinking precious grazing land and onerous government restrictions. The lives of the city-dwellers and the cowboys converge with tragic results when JoLynn reads a horrifying story of the massacre of hundreds of wild mustangs---who compete with cattle for grazing space---in the Nevada short grasslands. Stung into action by the wanton destruction of these supposedly protected animals, JoLynn and Oliver decide to try to photograph perpetrators at work and bring them to justice. Their idealistic dream becomes an all-too-real nightmare when they come across the Beale brothers and their foreman, JayJay Lawrence, shooting the wild horses and JoLynn is accidentally killed. Now the ranchers must kill again, but first they have to catch Oliver.

As Oliver is stalked across a hostile terrain, wracked with hunger, thirst, and grief, both the hunters and the hunted must descend to primitive levels of savagery to protect that which they hold most dear. In this riveting tale of a violent clash between cultures and values, we see the modern problems of man versus the environment acted out in all their terrible complexity.