Synopsis

TO SAVE A KILLER, A GUNMAN BLASTS HIS WAY ACROSS TEXAS

On the trail to Hangtree, a gang of bandits give chase to a teenage gunslinger. Young Bill is bracing for the end when the crack of a Winchester scatters the bandits. Sam Heller, Hangtree lawman, has saved another life. And Bill will beg Heller to save one more...

Bill rode in from East Texas, where Cullen Baker, the original quick-draw artist, fights a life-and-death battle with a corrupt robber baron for control of the Torrent River. Bill came seeking help from Cullen's old pal, Johnny Cross, who agrees to ride east to lend a bullet or two. It's a long way to go for justice, requiring a trek across a desert held by brutal outlaws just waiting to kill under a merciless sun. But with Sam Heller at Cross's side, the odds are better. And when the ammo's loaded and the triggers are cocked for an all-out gun battle, the Torrent will flow red—with blood...

About William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling western writer in America, and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over fifty million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as "the greatest western writer of the twenty-first century."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne

1867 Texas. Undercover Yankee Sam Heller lays for enemies, crone, long-time, new.......more

Goodreads review by Jerry

Texas outlaws This was about a bad area or Texas where it was hard for the Law in and clean it up. There were always some good men around . Had there now been Texas would not have lasted and......more