Escondrijo is a quiet town on the Texas coast, so Custis Long isn't expecting trouble when he heads there on his newest assignment: to escort a prisoner to Colorado. He soon finds that it's easier said than done, because a couple of trigger-happy...
In the Spur Award-winning title story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending...
Arizona Territory... the country of red deserts, rocks, high buttes and mountains--a harsh land but still a land, the Apaches had chosen for their own.
The land made the men, and the Indiands were trained from infancy to match their strength,...
Nathan Cox is the king of funny money--but the government isn't laughing. They're sending their best to find him--Longarm. The trouble is that there are plenty of folks who want Cox even worse than Longarm does. And with lead flying in every...
“They say I fell among thieves….I’ve fallen among saints as well.”
John Hare lies dying in the desert until he is discovered and saved by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naab’s ranch, he...
It was a fool thing to do, but Jack Trainor did it. In order to help keep his sister's husband from going to jail for robbery, Jack agrees to ride out on the getaway horse, drawing suspicions away from his brother-in-law and onto himself. But...
Ingram Rescuing a frightened woman from an attack by a one-armed man, Confederate soldier Paul Cable learns that his lands have been taken over by the Union army, and vows to regain his property or die...
Longarm doesn't like getting shot. It hurts. And so far, no one's been kind enough to kill him.
Now he's got a body full of Number Nine Buckshot, and a score to settle with the shooter: a woman they call Medusa Le Mat.
The only...