Cal Hennessy was on his way to meet up with old friend Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls. The plan was to catch up on each other's news over a beer or three. But before he got there he ran into two dead men and a bunch of blood-hungry Comanches.Trouble was brewing on the Staked Plains of Texas and Hennessy, who was no stranger to it, quickly found himself in the middle of a full-scale Indian war.He was a tough hombre. But was he tough enough to survive the killing to come?

Carter O'Brien's gun is for hire, but only when the job – and the money – are right. He's been everything from lawman to bounty hawk and he's as tough as they come.Right now he's riding shotgun on an expedition led by an old friend from his army days. Their goal – to find a lost canyon of silver down in Mexico. But the way is blocked by gunmen working for a greedy Mexican businessman and a ghost from O'Brien's past. To survive, O'Brien must kill or be killed.As the expediti...

They were tough and courageous men who drove Union Pacific's railroad construction forward. They came from Germany, Ireland, Sweden and many other countries besides. They were led by General Jack Casement, the head of railroad construction. And Casement had his work cut out for him when the crew reached Julesburg.Julesburg, the so-called "hell on wheels", was full of shady characters, whores, gamblers and swindlers who all wanted to take the railroad workers' hard-earned money away...

Thomas Howard of Missouri came out of nowhere, one foggy night, to rescue Countess Elaina Montague from rape and robbery. He was in England, he said, to find his brother, who had disappeared. To repay him, the beautiful Countess offered to enlist her friend, Sherlock Holmes, to help in the search. Despite investigating a rash of audacious jewel-thefts, and already spending altogether too much time at the music-hall, the Great Detective felt there was more to the mysterious Mr Howard, and a...

Cal Hennessy was on his way to meet up with old friend Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls. The plan was to catch up on each other's news over a beer or three. But before he got there he ran into two dead men and a bunch of blood-hungry Comanches.Trouble was brewing on the Staked Plains of Texas and Hennessy, who was no stranger to it, quickly found himself in the middle of a full-scale Indian war.He was a tough hombre. But was he tough enough to survive the killing to come?

They said that Chase Donovan had been a Texas Ranger for too long, that he'd become a law unto himself and that they weren't prepared to put up with his maverick, gun-fast ways any longer. So they took away his badge and kicked him out of the battalion and, almost before he knew it, he'd turned into a full-time drunk. Then a wealthy business man offered to bankroll his very own fight against the lawless. There was only one catch. Chase had to mend his wicked ways and go back to being the k...

King Creek was a rough-and-ready mining town set right in the heart of the Nevada goldfields. There was no law to speak of except Stover's Law – and it was ruthlessly enforced by one greedy woman, her three callous sons and a dozen hired gunmen.The situation was quickly going from bad to worse. A failed assassination attempt had left the only man capable of defying the freebooters crippled for life, and his wife was at her wits' end. The Stovers were systematically fleecing the tow...

Rancher Clint McNally was looking for someone to deliver $20,000 to the men who'd kidnapped his young son. Whoever took the job had to be as hard as nails, so professional fighting man Carter O'Brien was the natural choice.Still, McNally knew better than to trust that kind of money to one man, so he gave O'Brien a partner – a one-eyed, cigar-chewing soldier of fortune called Logan Tyree. There was just one problem; Tyree hated O'Brien's guts because of something that had happened n...

It started with a slaughter and ended with a massacre, and by the finish of it Sam Judge and Matt Dury had seen enough bloodshed to last them a lifetime. But the gun-fast men from Texas had signed on to help an army officer get his little girl back from the Apache renegades who'd kidnapped her, and once they gave their word, nothing would stop them from seeing a job through.Still, the odds against the success of their mission were almost as high as the odds against their survival. ...

They rode into Austin Springs stirrup to stirrup, six men with guns in their belts and blood in their eyes. The minute Town Marshal Sam Judge clapped eyes on them he pegged them as trouble. He was right, too, because by sunset Death had called and the blood of innocents had been spilled in the town's quiet and dusty streets.Almost before he knew it, Sam—once a celebrated town-tamer whom Ned Buntline himself had called 'The Pistol Prince'—found himself embarking on a vengeance hunt....

With the promise of $10,000 still ringing in his ears, professional fighting man Carter O'Brien rode south to free Aaron Norris, a big-shot politician who'd been framed for murder. But it wasn't going to be easy. Norris was being held in a prison nearly two hundred miles from home, and it was a veritable fortress that had been built right on the doorstep of a garrison full of Mexican soldiers.As if that wasn't bad enough, there were others who'd set their sights on the reward—two g...

At first O'Brien figured the job would be easy. After all, just how difficult could it be to locate a fifteen year-old runaway?But then it all spiraled out of control and he found himself going head-to-head with Johnny Spade, the handsome Italian they called 'The Last of the Comancheros', and Spade's thirty-strong gang of kill-crazy cut-throats.There wasn't much that one man could do against that many guns, but O'Brien knew he had to do something. By then,...