Aaron Gwyn was raised on a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma. He is the author of three novels and the story collection, Dog on the Cross, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. His novel, All God's Children, was a finalist for the 2021 Spur Award for Best Traditional Novel. His writing has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, and New Stories from the South. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and contributes book reviews, articles, and narrative nonfiction to Esquire.
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An elite platoon of Special Forces soldiers infiltrates a forbidding Afghan war zone on horseback in search of vast treasure in this lyrical, thrilling blend of military fiction and Western. When Corporal Elijah Russell's superb horsemanship is reveale... SEE MORE