Dead Man's Return

How far along the trail of violence and killing can a good man walk before he becomes as bad as those that he is hunting? A terrible fear paralyses the town of Leyton, Texas. On the morning that Sheriff Jack Anderson is to hang a 16-year-old boy for a horse theft the boy never committed, Jim Jackson arrives in Leyton searching for the man that betrayed him and sent him to hell for 10 years. Is Jack Anderson that man? And how can Jim Jackson exact revenge in a town full of cold-blooded and desperate killers? In the final part of Jim Jackson's story, the trail of intrigue and corruption—as well as the body count—rises into the upper echelons of the Texas political system, leading to a violent and dramatic finale that will have repercussions at the highest levels.

Derek Rutherford is the author of five Black Horse Westerns, including Dead Man Walking, and numerous short stories in the western, crime, science-fiction, and horror genres.