William W. Johnstone

There were some who knew Smoke Jensen as a hero...and there were others who believed the dark side of the legend that he was an outlaw who'd killed over 300 men. But when Smoke wakes up with a gut-wrenching headache in a New Mexico jail cell, he feels as helpless as a newly whelped cougar cub with a lease on his life shorter than the blink of an eye. Somehow, Smoke's got to make it out and escape the hid-hungry lynch mob that's after him for a murder...

Cowboys Scratch Morton and Bo Creel get a job transporting three vicious criminals from Arkansas to Texas for trial. The most dangerous criminal turns out to be a beautiful woman and soon the journey turns into a race for buried treasure, a shootout, and much more than these cowboys bargained for.

Frank Morgan goes up against a band of mercenaries who have been hired by the ranchers to burn the fields, crops, and homes of the farmers in a fierce range war.

Sheriff Jess Carey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas, infamous for murder, mayhem, prostitution, and every random act of bloodshed imaginable. Now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Carey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers,...