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Craig Rainey has appeared in more than 60 feature films. He has been nominated for and won many acting awards.
Author of 7 novels and 1 non-fiction book, Craig Rainey has a large reading audience. Most popular are his Carson Brand action thriller novels.
Craig Rainey's screenplays have won numerous awards including, Best Screenplay, Most Likely to be Produced as a Movie, Best Historical Action Screenplay, he won Best Breakout Writer in 2017.
In this fast-paced crime action thriller, Carson Brand and his best friend Bert cross the Mexican border for a night out. Brand doesn’t know about his friend’s secret association with organized crime. He also doesn’t know this will be his last night with Bert. Brand is pursued by murderous Sicarios, sought by federal and state authorities, and seduced then betrayed by the lovely Christina.
In this action thriller, Carson Brand is hired by a congressional candidate to work in his election campaign. As he gets deeper inside the organization, Brand learns that there is a side to the political process that the voters never see. Brand uncovers questionable tactics, shady operatives, and self-serving donors with agendas of their own. Brand's involvement threatens their plan to rule the country, targeting him for elimination.
Carson Brand wakes up in a stranger’s bed with no memory of who he is or where he has been. The beautiful stranger, Dehra, and her brother Leon, stumble upon an international plot to control the American people and the government. With no memory of his past and the enemies who hunt him, Brand must protect his new friends from mercenaries dispatched to silence the two before they tell what they know about the plot, while avoiding his own enemies’ efforts to exact revenge for actions he can’t remember.
Carson Brand believes he is leaving the problems he had with the DEA and the FBI behind when he gives up his work as a federal contractor. Taking a job with Sovereign Services, an elite private security firm, lands him once again into the complicated world of national and international intrigue. Framed for a kidnapping he did not commit, Brand has to elude the FBI’s Abduction Task Force and a state police force convinced he is one of the FBI’s most wanted. Learning that one of their elite operatives has gone rogue, Sovereign Services acts quickly to rescue the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, and exact deadly retribution for Brand’s betrayal.
In this western fiction classic novel, Boyd Hutton is a desperate and ruthless outlaw, known for his swift and deadly actions. His latest crime, the attempted robbery of the most secure bank in the western frontier, ends with the destruction of his devoted gang of outlaws. Alone, he eludes the pursuit of a vengeful posse and determined Texas Rangers. He is joined along the way by young Cab Jackson, who helps him across the Rio Grande into Mexico where Hutton continues his crime wave.
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Set in the backdrop of one of the bloodiest range wars in Texas history, HooDoo War is the story of Boyd Wechsler, the son of a lovely young widow, who grows up on his wealthy grandfather’s ranch. He learns the truth about his long-dead father when a ruthless outlaw and his gang are arrested and condemned to death at the hands of a corrupt sheriff. After learning the secret his mother and grandfather kept from him his entire life, he finds himself on a path shared by those who seek revenge against his grandfather and the men who support him.
Best Actor in a Feature - The Oldest Posse (Bass and Belle Film Festival 2023)
Action Thriller Crime Adventure International Film Festival 2023 (Stolen Valor)
Top Script Awards 2023 (Stolen Valor)
Atlanta Screenplay Awards 2023 (Stolen Valor)
Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood 2024 (Stolen Valor)
International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel (These Toxic Things)
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Average Rating – 4.8/5
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Buy HereSince Bass Reeves (2010) Craig has been out of the western movie business. In May of this year he completed work on another western titled The Oldest Posse.
Craig Rainey won best Actor in a Feature Film 2023 for his work in The Oldest Posse as the main character, Walker.
In 2010 Craig Rainey played villain Bob Dozier to Bass Reeves, the first black federal deputy marshall.