Max McCoy

Max McCoy is an award-winning author and journalist. He's the author of more than twenty books, including four original Indiana Jones adventures and three Ophelia Wylde paranormal mysteries. Of Grave Concern, the first mystery, was named a Kansas Notable Book by the State Library of Kansas. He won the Spur Award in 2011 from the Western Writers of America for Damnation Road, the last book in the Hellfire western noir trilogy. Set in Oklahoma Territory at the turn of the last century, the book concludes the story of irascible outlaw Jacob Gamble, who is now nearing fifty and confronted by a new west of telephones, smokeless powder, and moving pictures. The first book in trilogy, Hellfire Canyon, which introduced Jacob Gamble at age 13 and is set largely during the Civil War, also won a Spur and was also named a Kansas Notable Book.