Phil Truman Books in Order

This historical novel follows Henry Starr through life in Indian Territory and early Oklahoma. False accusations, a death sentence, and an escape from the gallows precede a career of bank robbery, tracing the contradictions of an enduring outlaw figure.

Coach Donny Doyle vows to topple a dominant high school football team that recruits outside talent. His own powerful but troubled recruit brings unexpected challenges, as players and townspeople struggle with adversity during a fiercely competitive season.

Two bikers arrive in Tsalagee searching for Belle Starr’s lost treasure, while local men suspect their involvement in a farmer’s murder. The hunt draws in an eccentric community and rumors of a curse and a creature lurking nearby.

These Western tales follow Bass Reeves from slavery to his work as a deputy U.S. marshal in Indian Territory. Tracking fugitives beyond a feared railroad boundary, he confronts outlaws in a country where lawmen often fail to return.

After a family’s brutal murder, deputy marshal Jubal Smoak pursues an outlaw through Quapaw country. Further killings, mutilated remains, and huge paw prints challenge his certainty that rumors of an awakened monstrous spirit are merely superstition.

Deputy Cal Bluehorse investigates a mutilated body on protected Choctaw land amid reports of unexplained lights. Resistance from the community, a hidden drug operation and further grisly discoveries leave him struggling to identify the killer.

In Oklahoma in 1911, Deputy Marshal Jubal Smoak and Mamie Dossett pursue two fugitives into the Wichita Mountains. Murders and rumors surrounding a mysterious medicine man turn the hunt into a confrontation with an ancient hunger.