Why would I sign a limited number of IN THE BLOOD First Edition title pages, bind them 50 pages at a time between two pieces of cardboard, take them to the Park City Gun Club, tape them to targets, and then shoot them with a Barrett 98B in .338 Lapua with a 20” barrel, Leupold Mark 4 optic, and AAC can?

So that I could send them back to Simon & Schuster to be bound into first editions of IN THE BLOOD at printing and be sent to independent bookstores across the country.

Once these are gone, they are gone forever!

In April of 2020 as businesses were shutting down across the country due to COVID-19, I wanted to do something to drive traffic to local independent bookstores at a time when most people were sequestered in their homes.  My small gesture of support came in the form of limited edition Savage Son bookplates available only through independent bookstores.  I published the list of participating bookstores with contact information on my website and they sold out immediately.  If you have one or can find one, hold onto it!  In April of 2021, in an effort to continue supporting the local independent bookstores I love so much, I replicated that campaign for the publication of The Devil’s Hand.  Those also sold out immediately.  For the publication of In The Blood, a sniper centric novel of violent resolutions, it was time to move things to the next level and send a bullet through title pages that are bound into the book, those bullets making each novel a one of a kind.