TIME TO MEET THE WIDOWMAKER
Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the
Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to
deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the
trail--a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled
bodies along the way.
With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine
owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage.
Foolhardy and desperate for money, Newt joins three other guards--and a
passenger, Jenny Silks, a stubborn firebrand with her own stake in
seeing the delivery through. But waiting on the Gunpowder Express is
Irish Jack O'Harrigan and his band of outlaws. There's not a soul alive
he wouldn't think twice about putting six feet under. But he's never
traded lead with the man known as Widowmaker . . .
Praise for Spur Award winner Brett Cogburn
"Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburn's readable prose and
lively characters."
--Publishers Weekly on Rooster
"Cogburn amazes and astounds."
--Booklist