About me
Set in Montana, 1935, The Dead Ringer follows Benjamin Kilt, a man left for dead by his bank-robbing half brother—only to return very much alive and bent on revenge. Joined by Bonnie, a thirteen-year-old Indigenous girl he rescues along the way, Kilt’s journey unfolds through her reflections years later, revealing a tangled family history and a reckoning rooted in the land where it all began.
For readers of Charles Portis, Elmore Leonard, and Annie Proulx, Dane Bahr’s haunting Western explores justice, morality, and the possibility of goodness in a brutal world. Bahr is also the author of The Houseboat and Stag and lives in Washington state with his family.
