Tracking Tom Horn's Confession: Book Four in the Angus Series: 4

In the summer of 1901 in the Iron Mountain area of Wyoming someone shot from ambush and killed a fourteen-year old boy. The kill shot hit him in the back and knocked him o his dads horse. Some thought Tom Horn did it. They narrowed the search down to him and got him to confess they said. He never said. His arrest trial and execution by hanging commenced a controversy that roared through the Rocky Mountains for over 100 years. That true story is the historical predicate for this novel.U.S. Deputy Marshal Angus is sent from Colorado up to the Iron Mountain area near Laramie Wyoming to track down the truth of Tom Horns so-called confession. He knows a little about Tom Horns legend-in-the making. Hes heard the stories-that Horn claimed Killing men is my specialty. I look at it as a business proposition and I think I have a corner on the market.Tom Horns confession involved a concealed stenographer hiding behind a door while an ambitious lawman lured a drunk Tom Horn to leave the territory by offering him a good job in Montana. Angus read the stenographers version. Horn allegedly said It was the best shot that I ever made and the dirtiest trick I ever done.But Tom Horns friends insist he didnt do it and never gave a confession. A lawman gone rogue made it up to advance his political career. The real question-guilt or innocence-got lost in the shuffle. Angus rides the Iron Mountain area in search for the truth. He found it when he himself had to solve another murder by ambush. He solves that murder in a way no one in the American West could imagine.