Book 1 of a new seriesThe job of a Federal marshal is a hard and often thankless one. Long days and lonely nights spent in the pursuit of dangerous fugitives takes a special kind of determination from a lawman and Deputy Isaac Bonds has just that kind of dedication. His duty is matched only by his dogged grit. Deputy Bonds will keep going even as the trail grows cold and lesser men turn back to seek the comforts of home. As the prospects of success look the most bleak, Bonds digs in his heels and gallops ahead.Now Bonds is on the trail of his most vile fugitive, a man-burner. These grisly murders are the worst crimes Bonds can imagine, almost inhuman in their violence. Bonds follows his suspect's trail even as he is repulsed by the string of fresh victims the man leaves in his wake. It won't be easy to catch this killer, he's cunning and has a head start, but catch him Bonds must if only to avert future atrocities.As the days of frustrating chase and disturbing carnage mount, Bonds begins to worry he has met his match. Capturing this butcher and returning him to swift justice may be a harder than any task Bonds has every faced before. Even as Bonds sets the final plans in place for a trap, the man is ahead of him ready to wiggle out of the noose and kill again. Some bad men are just damned hard to hang.If you've read any W.R. Benton westerns before you know what you are in for-If not get ready for a gut-punch of action and raw frontier violence.
