title: Strong Enough to Die: A Caitlin Strong Novel (Caitlin Strong Novels)
author:  Jon Land 
description: Land (<I>The Seven Sins</I>) introduces a tough original heroine, Caitlin Strong, a fifth-generation Texas Ranger, in the first of what hopefully will be a long crime series. Hyperpatriot Harmon Delladonne runs MacArthur-Rain, a corporation with tentacles in all areas of the U.S. government's security apparatus. Delladonne's project Fire Arrow threatens both the privacy of all Americans and their very lives. Strong, the only gun-totin' female in the legendary Texas Rangers, stumbles onto this plot when she finds her supposedly dead husband, Peter Goodwin, in an institution devoted to treating torture victims. She teams with a dangerous former foe, Cort Wesley Masters, to fight not only Delladonne but Emiliato Valdez Garza, the phantomlike head of the Mexican mafia, and the giant Guillermo Paz, a Delladonne henchman who ponders Kierkegaard while slaying his many enemies. The revelations are constant, the characters compelling and the action fast and furious. <I>(May)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
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  JON LAND is the critically acclaimed author of thirty novels, including the
  bestselling series featuring female Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong: Strong Enough
  to Die, Strong Justice, and Strong at the Break. In addition, he is the author
  of the nonfiction bestseller Betrayal. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island,
  and can be found on the Web at
  [www.jonlandbooks.com](http://www.jonlandbooks.com).
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  Welcome back to those who’ve been with me before and welcome to those visiting
  the world of Caitlin Strong for the first time.
  
  
  I know I sound like a broken record with all those I need and want to thank
  but, hey, some names bear repeating, starting at the top with my publisher,
  Tom Doherty, and Forge’s associate publisher, Linda Quinton, dear friends who
  publish books “the way they should be published,” to quote my late agent, the
  legendary Toni Mendez. Paul Stevens, Justin Golenbock, Patty Garcia, and
  especially Nat