In this action-packed western from national bestselling authors
William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen sets
his sharpshooting sights on an unhinged outlaw who's carved out his own
kingdom in the West--and declared war on the United States...
Johnstone Country. Come visit.
He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by
scandal. Now, he rules his own "country"--an area of western territory
where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own
must pay "taxes," collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies.
When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William
Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the
nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America's leaders and expand
his empire.
But The King didn't reckon that Smoke Jensen had already staked his
claim on the frontier. Traveling with the president's entourage, the
mountain man is not about to let this bloodthirsty, evil tyrant endanger
his commander-in-chief and threaten American liberty...