Biography

Randy Denmon has published four novels with Kensington Publishing. His novels have been reviewed in numerous papers and magazines. His new novel, Lords of an Empty Land, recently won the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He has also won the Faulkner-Wisdom Award, and been a finalist for the Ben Franklin Award and previously for the Spur Award. A lifelong Louisiana resident, he currently resides in Monroe, Louisiana. When not writing, he is a practicing Civil Engineer.

Schedule

1:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room C
Book Talk
Lords of an Empty Land

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent
Book Signing

Lords of an Empty Land

In the days of reconstruction after the Civil War, a wild strip of land in northern Louisiana remained unconquered by troops and untamed by the law. This is the story of the fearless veterans--Union and Confederate--who dared to enter this beautiful but hellish valley. . .and finish what the war started.

Lords Of An Empty Land

Red River Valley, 1869. Hoardes of ex-Confederate soldiers have emerged from the piney hills and mosquito infested swamps of Lousiana backcountry in a final, bloody show of defiance. After a series of violent raids on carpetbaggers, freed slaves, and northern cargo ships, Captain Douglas Owens of the 4th Calvary is given orders to reclaim this God-forsaken land from its murderous outlaw gangs. By Owens' side is Huff, a former slave, and Basil Dubose, an ex-Rebel gunslinger for hire who answers to no man but his paymaster. With each deadly encounter, it becomes clear to Owens that neither the Army nor the public is willing to spill blood for the sake of freed slaves. With his options dwindling, the Captain takes a squad of soldiers under his command--in a last desperate bid for freedom and justice that would change the course of history. . .