CALICHE — Western Screenplay
A retired federal marshal returns to his dying West Texas ranch to sell it off and disappear. He finds the county's water poisoned, three ranchers dead under signed-off accidents, and his former marshal partner running security for the drilling company behind it all. No badge. No jurisdiction. Eight days before the evidence disappears forever.
When ex-U.S. Marshal Cole Dryden returns to his family's drought-stricken West Texas ranch to sell it, he discovers that his neighbor Roy Caudill's recent death was not the accident the county ruled it. Roy's truck is four miles from where he died, and Roy's notebook shows that the county's water certifications are fraudulent. Cole teams up with water-rights attorney Sarah Whitmore and his family's longtime ranch hand Pico Luna, whose forty years of handwritten water measurements are the only evidence Varano Energy's lawyers cannot touch. The fight moves to a public water board hearing where the truth about the county's water is finally put on the record.
- Genre: Western
- 99 pages
- Language: EN
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CALICHE
When ex-U.S. Marshal Cole Dryden returns to his family's drought-stricken West Texas ranch to sell it, he discovers that his neighbor Roy Caudill's recent death was not the accident the county ruled it. Roy's truck is four miles from where he died, and Roy's notebook shows that the county's water certifications are fraudulent. Cole teams up with water-rights attorney Sarah Whitmore and his family's longtime ranch hand Pico Luna, whose forty years of handwritten water measurements are the only evidence Varano Energy's lawyers cannot touch. The fight moves to a public water board hearing where the truth about the county's water is finally put on the record.
A retired federal marshal returns to his dying West Texas ranch to sell it off and disappear. He finds the county's water poisoned, three ranchers dead under signed-off accidents, and his former marshal partner running security for the drilling company behind it all. No badge. No jurisdiction. Eight days before the evidence disappears forever.
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