Three Dead Men

<p></p><p><strong>He walked into town bought a shave and confessed to three murders. That was just the opening move.</strong></p><p>Eldridge Sample is done drifting. When he rides into the boomtown of Purgatory Creek he isn't looking for a job-he's looking for a jail cell. After gunning down three corrupt railroad fixers on a porch outside town Sample calmly surrenders to the local law.</p><p>But Eldridge Sample doesn't surrender. He positions himself.</p><p>Sheriff Slow Joe Early thinks he has a maniac in his cage until the Baron-ruthless railroad tycoon Leland Sterling-rolls into town on a private armored train carrying a private army and a Gatling gun. Sterling wants the prisoner who killed his men and he's willing to burn Purgatory Creek to the ground to get him.</p><p>trapped in a stone jailhouse with a hungover Sheriff and a terrified deputy Sample reveals his true plan: he didn't lock himself in to hide. He locked himself in to draw the Baron out.</p><p>Now the jail is a fortress the street is a kill zone and the only way out is through an army of mercenaries. From a brutal siege under the cover of night to a suicidal leap onto a moving locomotive Sample must fight a war against the iron horse itself to deliver a verdict that no judge could write.</p><p><strong>My daddy always told me if you get into a fair gunfight you were doing it wrong.</strong></p><p><strong>A high-stakes hard-boiled Western that reads like a collision between Rio Bravo and Die Hard. Three Dead Men delivers relentless action razor-sharp dialogue and a hero who knows that sometimes the only way to clean up a town is to tear it down.</strong></p><p></p>