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When Smoke Jensen sees a gang of outlaws holding up a stagecoach, he storms in with guns blazing. He kills one of the gunmen, and the rest scatter. But the dead man is the brother of the notorious outlaw Gabe Briggs and Briggs will want revenge.

The only hope that Eileen Mulkerin and her sons have of saving their ranch lies in finding a hidden cache of gold whose location was known only to her dead husband.

A man preparing to welcome his new wife to his home is killed, along with his entire family, by Frank, the ruthless hired gunman of a railroad magnate in this story of greed and land-grabbing in the Old West.

In a town like Chugwater, Wyoming, you know who your friends are, who your enemies are, and who your kill-crazy maniacs are. For Duff MacCallister, the last category belongs to Johnny Taylor and his gang. Duff has wrestled with this polecat before, and knows that his bite is worse than his smell. But when Taylor's gang tries to rob a bank--and Duff manages to shoot one and arrest Taylor's brother--the outraged outlaw raises a stink straight out of...

"Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater"--P. [4] of cover.

"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River--straight into Indian Territory. That's where...

In August 2019, discredited journalist Boyd Halverson walks into the Community National Bank in Northern California and steals $81,000 at gunpoint, then brings teller Angie Bing along on an extended ride that reveals the country's flattened morals and morale. Along the way, they're chased by hitmen, angry lovers, an heiress, a billionaire, and assorted others as Boyd seeks vengeance for the wrongs one man did him.

"He was part yanqui, part Mexican, part black, part Comanche. He was all man - and every inch a killer. He called himself Espada, the "Ace of Spades" in Spanish, and that was the calling card he left on the bullet-ridden corpses of his victims. Espada aimed to move in on the Stantons - and he was ready to gun down anybody who stood in his way, or else simply break him in his huge bare hands. This was the man against whom Jaime Henry, the Stanton ranch's...