The powerful sequel to Outrage at Blanco, Edgar & Shamus Award nominee
Bill Crider's startlingly original western crime novel
Six months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s
Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her and killed her husband,
leaving her for dead. But she hunted them down and, along the way, found
an inner strength and relentless determination that no man can match.
Ellie thought the killing was over...that she'd put her guns away for
good to run a ranch that she'd inherited from a legendary Texas Ranger.
She was wrong.
TEXAS VIGILANTE
A prison wagon is on its way to Huntsville when one of the prisoners,
ruthless killer Angel Ware, engineers a bold escape. Now free, and
blaming his sister Sue for his arrest, Angel and a gang of three other
escaped murderers track her and her family down to Ellie's ranch. Angel
and his gang mount a bloody attack and take Sue's young child with them.
There's a posse on its way, but Ellie Taine isn't going to wait. She
saddles her horse and loads her guns, prepared to enforce the only
justice she can rely on...her own.
"As clean and sharp as a fine Bowie knife. Crider's prose slices through
conventions and expectations," -Booklist
