COUNTERFEIT RODEOS
A Nathan Wolf Novel
Award winning author James Duermeyer has written another western, Counterfeit Rodeos, Book Three, in his Nathan Wolf series: After a casual afternoon visit to a local rodeo, Nathan Wolf discovers that the rodeo performance is rigged by a criminal element that is willing to commit murder to keep its secrets from reaching the arm of the law. But Nathan soon learns that rigged rodeos are only one piece of a much larger multi-faceted criminal enterprise that spans many states in its reach. Several of Wolf’s friends join him in the twists and turns of searching for the head of the criminal enterprise, all the while placing Wolf in life and death danger in his hunt for the truth.
Counterfeit Rodeos, following Trail of the Outlaw and Singing Creek are set in post reconstruction Kansas, where a traveling carnival holds secrets that Wolf must pry from dangerous criminal characters.
REVIEWS & ENDORSEMENTS
Roundup Magazine, February 2026
COUNTERFEIT RODEOS is the third installment of James Duermeyer’s Nathan Wolf series set in and around Chanute, Kansas. In COUNTERFEIT RODEOS, Wolf becomes involved with the Secret Service and Pinkerton Agency after discovering that the rodeo that comes to Chanute is rigged. When a horse dies in the arena after being drugged by the stock owner to buck harder, he finds a local cowboy beaten to be kept from competing. The story continues to grow as counterfeit money is discovered hidden in books. The story has several twits, between fixed rodeo, counterfeit money, and a murder that will keep your interest.
– Lowell F. Volk
Western Writers of America, Book Reviews
JAMES DUERMEYER