Author Ben Zeller brings the, Secrets of Beaver Creek, to an audience anxiously awaiting a modern day western filled with shootouts, stampeding longhorns, exploding coal-bed methane and murderous mayhem.

With the help of the US Bureau of Land Management and the administration in Washington, W. Ebert Bellwether, a rabid Republican billionaire, buys up hundreds of thousands of acres of open rangeland. He acquires mineral rights on his own land as well as on adjoining ranches.  His secret goal:  methane gas.  Priceless wilderness areas will be raped and New Mexico's Coal County's water table reduced to mud -- a replay of the Jonah Field / Powder River fiasco in Wyoming. 

The local "godfather," Valentino Peggler -- silent owner of the bank, radio station, newspaper and most rentals in the town of Radiant, the seat of Coal County -- finds his freedom threatened.  Calling in old debts from his days in organized crime, he sends a man into Bellwether's fortified mansion outside the nation's capital.  In addition to copying Bellwether's files pertaining to Coal County, Peggler's agent videotapes W. Ebert, his wife and a number of Washington's top leaders in group sexual practices and uses it as blackmail.

Secrets of Beaver Creek is an excellent, informative and riveting read that will leave you asking many explosive questions about the dangers of coal-bed methane. 

Author’s website:   www.benzeller.net

About the Author



Ben Zeller works in the film industry to support his writing habit. In addition to, Secrets of Beaver Creek, he also wrote, The Coordinator and Firedamp. Zeller acted in over thirty films and coordinated construction for Dances With Wolves, Medicine Man, Man On Fire, Crazy Heart and Appaloosa. He was Art Director for Crazy Heart, Beowulf and Highlander-Endgame. Zeller divides his time between the ranch in Tinaja, New Mexico and La Veta, Colorado with his wife, Evelyn and daughters, Shannon and Kevyn.