Cape Hell

U. S. Deputy Page Murdock is ordered by Federal Judge Harlan A. Blackthorne to Cape Hell, Mexico, to verify a report that former Confederate Captain Oscar Childress is raising an army to take over Mexico City--and then intends to turn north to rekindle the Civil War.

Childress, it seems, has the weapons, wealth, and moral compass to do it. Unable to talk himself out of the mission, Murdock heads south on a steam train namedEl Espanto--The Ghost.

With only Hector Cansado, an engineer who can't be trusted and Joseph, a Native American fireman with a few secrets of his own, Murdock hurtles through the murderous desert of a foreign land toward a man bent on wholesale massacre . . . unless Murdock can stop him.

LOREN D. ESTLEMAN has written more than seventy books--historical novels, mysteries, and westerns, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock and Peter Macklin series. Winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Western Writers of America, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.