Rod Collins Books in Order

This guide addresses the practical uncertainty of starting a management role. It discusses making decisions, understanding organizational culture, recognizing leaders, and encouraging employees, with an emphasis on effective action, principled negotiation, and bringing compassion into the workplace.

After the Civil War, Captain John Bitter sets out to return to his Oregon home. His intended solitary journey becomes an adventure shared with a diverse group of travelers, confronting danger and changing responsibilities along the Oregon Trail.

Sheriff Bud Blair captures a confessed killer after a suspicious death in Oregon's High Desert. An autopsy report raises doubts about the confession, forcing him to reconsider the case and search beyond the apparently convenient solution.

Sheriff Bud Blair investigates a possible connection between a dead Washington sailor and an unidentified murder victim in Oregon. His inquiry brings local deputies into contact with federal investigators, drug runners, and a mysterious figure known as Stone Fly.

A biker gang threatens Lakeview after Sheriff Bud Blair arrests men involved in a revenge plot against a minister. Meanwhile, federal agents investigate human trafficking in Portland, expanding the danger across the Pacific Northwest and testing Bud's relationships.

Pursued by assassins working for Bloodstone, Sheriff Bud Blair helps arrange a trap for a Colombian drug lord. The operation draws together federal agencies while placing Bud's career, life, and approaching marriage to Nancy Sixkiller in jeopardy.

Thirteen-year-old Mariah flees after witnessing violence by her mother's boyfriend. Sheriff Bud Blair and his deputies race to find her before he does, while cartel retaliation creates another threat in Oregon's High Desert and beyond.

John Bitter's family faces an unsettled Oregon in the late 1860s, following the journey chronicled in Bitter's Run. Gold rushes, political maneuvering, land disputes, and frontier violence shape this continuation of the family's historical saga.