Squaw Man

<p><strong>He came for a five-hundred-dollar bounty. He stayed to burn the town down.</strong></p><p>Eldridge Sample rides into the mining boomtown of Solitude looking for two cheap bank robbers and a quiet drink. What he finds is a kingdom built on theft. Prosper King a ruthless land baron owns the gold the water and the law-and he just murdered a prospector in broad daylight to prove it.</p><p>When the dead man's Apache wife Nita screams for justice in a street full of cowards King orders his men to silence her. But he didn't count on the drifter watching from the shadows.</p><p>Abandoning his bounty Sample rescues the widow and uncovers a conspiracy that runs deeper than the mineshafts beneath the street. King isn't just stealing a claim; he's stealing the future of the territory.</p><p>Trapped in a town where the sheriff is bought the deputies are outlaws and the only friend they have is a terrified undertaker Sample and Nita are forced into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. From the claustrophobic darkness of a drainage tunnel to a tense standoff in a church bell tower they must keep the proof of King's crimes alive until the circuit judge arrives.</p><p>But when the law finally steps off the stagecoach Sample learns a hard lesson: in Solitude the gavel is just another weapon in the tyrant's hand.</p><p>Out of options and out of time Sample decides that if he can't save the town he'll save the truth.</p><p><strong>King wanted a fire. We're going to give him a town full of it.</strong></p><p><strong>Explosive noir-tinged and morally complex Town of Ash is a Western thriller about the price of corruption and the cleansing power of fire. Perfect for fans of Deadwood the tactical action of The Way of the Gun and the hard-boiled style of Elmore Leonard.</strong></p><p></p><p></p>