La Gringa

<p>Lord Huntoun and his entourage arrive in the unforgiving llano of the Big Bend in West Texas in search of the bones of a prehistoric creature rumored to lie in a dry wash far out in Apacheria. Among his party is his willful daughter Arabella as sure with a rifle or upon a horse as any man after childhood in the Hindu Kush.</p><p><br></p><p>What begins as a grand adventure in a new land swiftly turns to a nightmare as the expedition encounters not only a Mescalero war band but a gang of gunmen sent by an eastern robber baron with orders to see that the foreigners never leave the desert alive.</p><p><br></p><p>Over the course of a few hellish days Arabella will become a legend among the Apaches.</p><p><br></p><p>They will call her <em>La Gringa</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Chuck Dixon brings you his latest action western a rattlesnake mean epic told with action authority and the storytelling power for which he's always been known.</p>