"Thorndike large print western series"--T. p. verso.

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The job was hard, but Carlin was harder...Dan Brandon was dead--buried under the range he had ruled with an iron hand. Behind him he left the huge cattle empire he had carved out, a son too cowardly to defend it, and a widow who desperately needed help. That was when a lethal loner named Carlin was called in. His job: to stand off the nightriding army of ravagers closing in on the Brandon spread like vultures on a still-warm corpse. A vast cattle kingdom was the prize --kill or be killed was the game. It was Carlin's choice: turn tail and run, or stay and die. His answer came right out of the barrels of his flaming guns.....