Ralph Cotton is a Best Selling Author with over seventy books to his credit and millions of books in print. Ralph's books are top sellers in the Western and Civil War/Western genres, and in 2015 he debuted his new Gun Culture series with Friend of a Friend. Known for fast-paced narrative and wry dar...

Ralph Cotton is a Best Selling Author with over seventy books to his credit and millions of books in print. Ralph's books are top sellers in the Western and Civil War/Western genres, and in 2015 he debuted his new Gun Culture series with Friend of a Friend. Known for fast-paced narrative and wry dark humor, Ralph's introduction to the Florida crime fiction genre has been well received Black Mesa is the 14th novel in the Ranger Sam Burrack (Big Iron) series, written in 2005 and reissued in 2016 in Ralph's Western Classics group of books, as well as an ebook. Ralph lives on the Florida coast with his wife Mary Lynn. He writes prodigiously, but also enjoys painting, photography, sailing and playing guitar.