Welcome to Cottonmouth

Scott Bell

07-08-25

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07-08-25

Abridgement

Unabridged

Genre

Fiction/Thrillers

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“Jay S. Bell has arrived and he’s firing on all cylinders. This book is so original and well written that it had to be penned by a legend in the making.” Joshua Hood, bestselling author of The Guardian and Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series

“Jay S. Bell has arrived and he’s firing on all cylinders. This book is so original and well written that it had to be penned by a legend in the making.”—Joshua Hood, bestselling author of Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series

What does the US government do with spies and special operators when they pass their expiration date? They retire them to a small town deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas, where they’re certain to cause no trouble.

A collection of broken spies, former double agents, and retired operators lives in secrecy, under the watchful eye of the government in the small, deep-woods town of Cottonmouth, Texas.

Devlin Mahoney is the de facto mayor of these special citizens, charged with keeping them in seclusion, hidden from the world, which he does from the office of the town’s only motel.

But the peace of this sleepy village is shattered when a pair of women, on the run from a vicious criminal, drops into Mahoney’s lap and he’s forced to choose between doing what’s right and doing what he’s told.

Praise

“Jay S. Bell has arrived and he’s firing on all cylinders. This book is so original and well written that it had to be penned by a legend in the making.” Joshua Hood, bestselling author of The Guardian and Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series

“A fantastically original idea executed with the style and skill of a veteran wordsmith. If Welcome to Cottonmouth isn’t on your must-read list, then you need to fix that problem right now.” Victor Gischler, award-winning author of Gun Monkeys

“The kind of thriller you dive into when you’re looking for a killer weekend read: something hardcore and enthralling with an old-school approach to kick-assery…Gritty and intense action sequences that align with the realistic setting and fast-paced storytelling…Welcome To Cottonmouth is a thriller’s thriller.” The Best Thriller Books

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Language English
Release Day Jul 7, 2025
Release Date July 8, 2025
Release Date Machine 1751932800
Imprint Blackstone Publishing
Provider Blackstone Publishing
Categories Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Suspense, Domestic Thrillers, Crime Thrillers
Author Bio
Scott Bell

Jay S. Bell, a typical Suburban Man by day, toils away at his lonely keyboard by night. Bell has been telling himself stories through his life of multiple careers, from fraud investigations to HVAC technician, software sales to store detective. He tends to overuse the phrase, “Hey, that looks easy, I’ll bet I could do it,” which is how he came to his latest career as a wordslinger. Welcome to Cottonmouth is his first novel.

Overview

“Jay S. Bell has arrived and he’s firing on all cylinders. This book is so original and well written that it had to be penned by a legend in the making.”—Joshua Hood, bestselling author of Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series

What does the US government do with spies and special operators when they pass their expiration date? They retire them to a small town deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas, where they’re certain to cause no trouble.

A collection of broken spies, former double agents, and retired operators lives in secrecy, under the watchful eye of the government in the small, deep-woods town of Cottonmouth, Texas.

Devlin Mahoney is the de facto mayor of these special citizens, charged with keeping them in seclusion, hidden from the world, which he does from the office of the town’s only motel.

But the peace of this sleepy village is shattered when a pair of women, on the run from a vicious criminal, drops into Mahoney’s lap and he’s forced to choose between doing what’s right and doing what he’s told.