Home Place

About the Book

A Nebraska rancher, trying to assist a car-crash victim, picks up a mysterious compact disk and finds himself and his wife besieged on their ranch by a pair of mob killers. Without effective weapons, they resort to an inventive defense. As a high plains blizzard rages, a beautiful Treasury agent joins forces with a deputy sheriff in an attempt to rescue the ranchers.

About the Author

Jack Botts, the author, is professor emeritus in Journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was a reporter and editor for seventeen years before beginning a twenty-four-year teaching career at Nebraska where he was sequence head and News-Editorial Department chairman for eighteen years. Home Place is his second novel.