Fiction – Thrillers – Crime – Indigenous – Literary

RELESE DATE: 7/7/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

From the award-winning author of Winter Counts comes a new thriller about lifeand deathon the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from the reservation is murdered, hes forced to return to the job. Making matters more complicated, threats are coming from the Pine Ridge 705a street gang from a neighboring reservation who want to expand their reach into Rosebudand Mitch Gagnon, a shady politician who will stop at nothing to gain more power.

With aheatedtribal council election looming,as well as new revelations regarding past injustices at the local Native boarding school, the stakes grow even higher. Will Virgil find the justice hes seeking before its too late?

David Heska Wanbli Weiden, whose writing melds the gritty realism of Dashiell Hammett with the lyricism of Tommy Orange (O, The Oprah Magazine),once again brings us a tour de force of crime fictionand an expansive look at Native American life in a shifting world.

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David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is the author ofWinter Counts, which won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. He received the PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship and is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross, Sewanee, and Tin House. A professor of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Stony Brook University, he lives in New York and Colorado with his family.

“Wisdom Corneris a raw yet moving journey as we follow one good man trying to do one good thing. A tour de force!” –S.A. Cosby, author of King of Ashes