Fans of William Johnstone and Ralph Compton will love this actionpacked historical western featuring a lone gunman and the people hes tasked with protecting.Jake Paynter escaped the noose, but the price of salvation is pain.Since reluctantly accepting the marshals job at South Pass City, Jakes life has become an unending run of solving other peoples problems. When outlaw boss Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless band mount a campaign of mayhem in Jakes corner of the Wyoming Territory, Jake learns that Lucien Ashley, his persistent adversary, may be aiding the criminals to expand his burgeoning cattle fortune. The fact that Lucien is the brother of Rosalyn, a woman Jake admires, complicates matters.Determined to thwart van Zandt and Lucien, Jake recruits a posse of old friends and former platoonmates that puts the outlaw gang on the run. When Lucien betrays van Zandt, the outlaw leader loots Jakes town and takes captive Rosalyn and four children. With friends few and enemies in abundance, Jake must thread a harrowing needle to run down van Zandt in the rugged Wyoming wilderness and save Rosalyn and the children without ending up in a shallow grave.

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc; Classification: FJW; Weight: 352 g; Dimensions: 121 x 177 x 28

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