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When Quinn Mendosa's gun-runners steal fifty crates of rifles from Fort Stirling, Sheriff Rourke Bowman reckons that plenty of trouble will be heading his way.But that trouble arrives sooner than he expects when his jailbird brother Dave Bowman rides into town and raises hell. Rourke has enough trouble on his hands, but when Dave offers to help him capture Mendosa by infiltrating his gun-runners it's an offer that's just too good to refuse.Can the unreliable Dave complete his mission before those rifles fulfil their deadly purpose? Or will Rourke live to regret not running Dave out of town the moment he first clapped eyes on him?
Six western short stories with a sting in the tail.Once Upon a Time in Mirage - Tucker Crowley and Durango Jones share a cell in the jailhouse, and they both have a story to tell.Last Throw of the Bones - Bounty hunter Broughton McKay visits NeetaanTakaTa for advice, but he'd be better off not knowing his fate.Return to Purgatory - Somerville Durant seeks answers about his past, but does he have a future?Five Hundred Dollars for a Dead Man - Clarence Lear gets more than he bargained for when he calls on the services of manhunter Mortimer Drago.The Finest Deputy in the West - Six men apply to be Sheriff Callaghan's new deputy and only the finest lawman will get the job.The Man Who Shot Garfield Delany - Frank Beckett relives the day he became a legend, an event he's regretted ever since.
Cassidy Yates was appointed deputy sheriff of Redemption City but such was his knack of attracting trouble that barely twenty-four hours after his appointment he had been slapped in jail And if that wasn't bad enough, Brett McBain's outlaw gang rode into town to bust Nathaniel McBain from jail. Sheriff Wishbone is killed and the townsfolk think Cassidy responsible.Now, having been imprisoned for the murder of his own sheriff, Cassidy must prove his innocence and the only way to do this is to infiltrate Brett's gang. He must convince Brett he's an outlaw, and persuade everybody else that he really is an honest lawman.Could he pull off his enormous bluff or would he join Sheriff Wishbone on Boot Hill?
When Luke McCoy killed his first man, the townsfolk of Dirtwood formed a posse, arrested him and threw him into Beaver Ridge jail to rot. For seven long years Luke plotted his revenge and then he finally managed to escape. Now he could act out his vengeance But when he rides into Dirtwood, the town is already in the grip of fear. Josh Carter and his ruthless outlaw gang have taken over the town and only Luke's childhood friend, Ethan Craig, has the courage to stand up to them.Luke readily adds to Dirtwood's woes, but as the lead flies and the bodies mount, can an old friendship offer a man as murderous as Luke one last chance of redemption?
When Fergal O'Brien sells a bottle of his universal remedy to the dying Leland Crawford, Leland makes a miraculous recovery, for several minutes. Then he drops dead. But before the end Leland bequeaths to Fergal his beloved Clementine, a 250-foot sidewheeler that once ruled the Big Muddy, until it sank.Worse, Leland was in debt and now the creditors expect Fergal to pay up. With Fergal having no money, minstrel Dayton Hyde offers him a way out, but only if he kills Marshal Swift. To avoid carrying out this unwelcome task, Fergal will need to use all his cunning or like as not in this wet weather, he'll share the fate of Clementine.
Six western short stories featuring familiar characters in unfamiliar situations.A Leap of Faith - Nat McBain is to be locked up in jail, but can he survive for long enough to start his sentence?Truth is the Final Victim - Sheriff Cassidy Yates arrests a killer, but when the court releases him he must find another way to deliver justice.Lucky Tooth - Jim Dragon has feuded with his rival for many years, but to defeat a mutual enemy they will have to put aside their differences.Don't Look Back - Ethan Craig returns to Dirtwood, a homecoming that gets him into more trouble than he expected.Devine's Justice - US Marshal Jake T. Devine's life is saved by a man who then asks for his help, a request he'll soon regret.A Taste of Your Own Medicine - Fergal O'Brien is offered a thousand dollars to help an ill woman, but the price of failure could be even higher.
Spenser O'Connor's luck has finally run out. After years of riding with Kirk Morton's outlaw gang, he's been caught and slammed in Beaver Ridge jail. The noose beckons. Then two bounty hunters, Nat McBain and Clifford Trantor, offer him a choice - die at dawn or help them track down Kirk Morton.Not surprisingly, Spenser chooses to help them.But this unlikely team soon discovers that Kirk is an ornery and ruthless quarry. Worse, they're not the only ones after him and the other bounty hunters will stop at nothing to capture Kirk.When the bullets start flying from all directions, it isn't long before Spenser wonders if the noose might have been the better choice.
Fergal O'Brien has suffered bad times before, but when he walks into the town of Paradise he is at his lowest ebb. Footsore and hungry, he doesn't have a cent to his name.Worse is to follow when Tex Porter raids Paradise's bank and Fergal is the victim of mistaken identity, leading to the bartender Bunty Shelby suspecting he's an outlaw. Bunty dreams of one day becoming the greatest bounty hunter in the West and capturing Fergal could make her dreams come true.If Fergal is going to restore his fortunes, he'll have to find a way to defeat the formidable Tex, while avoiding letting the somewhat less formidable Bunty claim her first bounty.
Sheriff Cassidy Yates couldn't believe his eyes when he read the Wanted poster. His ex-deputy, and friend, Nathaniel McBain was both a wanted man and a member of Rodrigo Fernandez's ruthless outlaw gang.There's nothing worse than a lawman gone bad, and Cassidy knows it's his duty to arrest McBain. But when he finds him, McBain claims the Wanted poster is wrong and his true intention is to infiltrate Fernandez's gang and bring the outlaw to justice.Is McBain really working undercover? Only one thing is certain: when Cassidy learns the full truth about McBain's plan, it will test to the very limit the strength of his friendship and his duty as a lawman.
Slammed in a jail cell after killing a man in a crooked poker game, Ethan Craig's future looks bleak. Then a witness, Amelia Ash, comes forward and offers Ethan a way out. But there's a catch. Amelia needs someone to escort her on a treacherous journey across bandit-infested country to her forthcoming wedding.Ethan agrees to take her, but with raging rivers to cross and Buck Lincoln's outlaw gang on her tail, it isn't long before he realizes just how treacherous this journey will be. But the one problem Ethan never expected to face is that he would fall victim to Amelia's charms and getting her to her wedding might just be the last thing he'll want to do
Ethan Craig picked the wrong day to start working for Sam Pringle's outfit. Within hours of joining up, Ansel Stark's bandit gang bushwhacked the outfit at Bluff Point and Ethan saw all his new colleagues gunned down in cold blood.He vowed to get his revenge, but before Ethan could get his manhunt under way his bad luck continued when for the second time he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and Sheriff Henry Fisher arrested him. His presumed crime was being a member of the very gang he'd sworn to track down With nobody believing his innocence and a ruthless bandit to catch, can Ethan ever hope to succeed?
Sheriff Wes Creed has suffered yet another disastrous day. Earlier, Clayton Bell's bandit gang raided a cash shipment bound for Lincoln's bank. And while Creed fruitlessly pursued the bandits, the vigilante organization, the Ten Percent gang, calmly tracked and reclaimed the stolen cash. And for their trouble, the vigilantes retained their usual fee - ten percent of the cash.With the Ten Percent gang now threatening to enforce all justice in Lincoln, Creed realizes he has to slap them in jail, even if it means riding roughshod over every law in the land.So Creed has no choice but to forge an alliance with the only man who hates the Ten Percent gang as much as he does - Clayton Bell.
Marshal Jake T. Devine's law is simple. Nobody threatens him and lives. In his twenty-five years of law enforcement he's always brought in his man with a bullet blasted between the eyes. So when Max Randall shoots his mouth off, claiming he knows a devastating secret about the wealthy rancher, Roy Cowie, he's clearly spoiling for trouble - and gets it Roy Cowie calls in Devine to arrest Max and without provocation the brutal marshal slaughters Max's entire family. In self-preservation Max heads for the hills with Devine and his deadly Peacemaker in hot pursuit. Even when Max gains an unlikely ally in Roy Cowie's son, his chances of seeing another sunrise are slim.Can Max survive long enough to reveal what he knows, or will the gun-toting marshal deliver yet another round of Devine's law?
When Trip Kincaid saved Milton Calloway's life, Milton was so grateful he gave him his saloon at Calloway's Crossing. But when Trip arrived to claim his property, the saloon wasn't what he expected - it had in fact collapsed into a bubbling pool of mud Undeterred, Trip rebuilt the saloon. Within hours of opening, Ryan Trimble's protection gang muscled in on him and his only compensation was the distraction his bartender, the beguiling Grace Theroux, provided.Trip needed help to defeat Ryan and it arrived in the form of a mysterious gunslinger - but at what price? Before long, Trip faced the fight of his life to save not only the saloon but also himself and Grace.
When Sheriff Cassidy Yates rode into Eagle Heights he never expected he would be in jail by nightfall on an unfounded murder charge. Although Cassidy answered the charge, it was only at the cost of implicating his own wayward brother in both this murder and the kidnapping of the dead man's widow.Against an escalating conspiracy of fear operating in the town, Cassidy gains the help of a young newspaper correspondent in his quest to find the real killer and the kidnapped woman. But with gun-toting ranchers and numerous hired guns standing between Cassidy and justice, can he prove his brother's innocence?
When Wendell Moon hightailed it out of Monotony, he left in his wake a murdered lawman and a mob braying for his blood. Fifteen years later the word is out - Wendell Moon is back But, for Sheriff Cassidy Yates, Wendell's unwelcome return rekindles old vendettas and ignites three days of raging gun battles.Now the sheriff has the impossible duty of keeping the peace, but as if that isn't enough Wendell also claims he never killed the lawman If Cassidy doesn't unearth the truth quickly, Wendell's trigger-happy enemies will deliver their own form of gun-toting justice. Real trouble lies ahead
Staked out under the baking heat of the desert sun by Frank Chapel's riders from hell is no way for any man to die. Only someone as resilient as Matt Travis had the courage to endure the heat and the vultures and survive. When finally he manages to escape a gruesome death only one thing is on his mind - revenge.But his memory has been blasted to oblivion and he is even unsure of his own name. All he knows is that everyone wants him dead Justice must be done and Matt will be judge, jury and hangman. First, though, he must face up to the truth of his past and, that accomplished, lead begins to fly.