Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood?the hero of "L.A. Outlaws"?left readers clamoring
for more, and in "The Renegades," T. Jefferson Parker more than delivers.
Some say that outlaws no longer exist, that the true spirit of the American West
died with the legendary bandits of pulp novels and bedtime stories. Charlie Hood
knows that nothing could be further from the truth. These days he patrols vast
stretches of the new American West, not on horseback but in his cruiser. The
outlaws may not carry six-shooters, but they?re strapped all the same.
Along the desolate and dusty roads of this new frontier, Hood prefers to ride
alone, and