The Lawbringers 5: Vultures in the Sun

Who Hired the Killer to Walk Our Streets?That was the headline of the Lodestar newspaper. The answer was Krayle MacIver.Krayle had hired the killer because he figured it was high time something was done about the trigger-happy band of toughs and bandits that were wrecking the town. The sheriff has proven helpless, so Krayle had sent for Ethan Scott.But once Scott was in town, the matter was out of anyone's hands. Scott was ruthless, efficient, and cool. Anyone who now tried to stop him would be just another target for his deadly bullets.And Krayle didn't know whether he was already marked for such a target. The author of more than seventy books, Brian Garfield is one of USA's most prolific writes of thrillers, westerns and other genre fiction. Raised in Arizona, Garfield found success at an early age, publishing his first novel when he was only eighteen. Which, at the time, made him one of the youngest writers of Western novels in print.A former ranch-hand, he is a student of Western and South-western history, an expert on guns, and a sports car enthusiast. After time in the Army, a few years touring with a jazz band, and a Master's Degree from the University of Arizona, he settled into writing full time.Garfield is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, and the only author to have held both offices. Nineteen of his novels have been made into films, including Death Wish (1972), The Last Hard Men (1976) and Hopscotch (1975), for which he wrote the screenplay.To date, his novels have sold over twenty million copies worldwide. He and his wife live in California. Although Brian Garfield is better known for novels such as DEATH WISH, he wrote many Westerns. The Lawbringers series brings together his original stand alone novels written under different pseudonyms and explores the Old West from the eyes of the lawmen - these were the Lawbringers.