No Safe Refuge

About the Book

It is the summer of 1919, and America is entangled in the Great Red Scare. Leaders from the federal to the local levels fear that domestic radicals will snatch away the fruits of victory just won in the “war to end war.” Secret agents, both official and self-appointed, spread across the land, stirring up hornets’ nests of vigilantism and trouble. On July 4th, all this bursts like a summer storm, fierce and unexpected, on Deputy Sheriff Jim Buckner, of Corinth, Missouri. Jacques Barzun, author of A Catalogue of Crime called No Safe Refuge “a brilliant performance.” It is the first the Highland County series of crime novels featuring World War One veteran James Buckner, and is now available in paperback for the first time.

About the Author

Christopher C. Gibbs was born in California and raised in Missouri. He is married with two children and lives in New Jersey. He served in the military police in Viet Nam. He is the author of several works of non-fiction and fiction, including The Good Body Man, the second novel in the Highland County series.