Captain Rickert was tough. Flatly, he told the new recruits in the Texas Rangers: "You will be paid forty dollars a month. You will provide your own clothes, guns, ammunition, horse, saddle, and you'll feed yourself." Right there, a sane man would figure he might as well quit now. Practically any job would be better than what the Rangers offered. Except that what they offered was not a job--it was a way of life. It really didn't matter how...

Shaw Dance was a man with a peculiar philosophy - he took from his mountain only the gold and the sustenance he needed. Nor would he let anybody, gold seekers or otherwise, take more than that. The people of the small town at the foot of Shaw's Mountain had long since become accustomed to Shaw's peculiar ways. But now there was a man - one who didn't care about gold, who came to challenge the right of any man to sit on a mountain and call it his own....

No one has ever seen the man known as Tass Creel. He's a hired gun who strikes silently and then disappears, leaving in his wake nothing but tragedy and pain. He's been wanted by the Texas Rangers for over two decades. No one has even come close to catching Creel. Now, Burke Pine has picked up a lead. As tenuous as it is, it's more than they've had before. Fueled by a relentless need to bring such a ruthless murderer to justice, Pine will follow the...