Washoe County Library System

When U.S. Marshal Bill Tanner is found dead, Jack Slade picks up his trail, hot on a gang of moonshiners.

The so-called homestead killers have been cutting a bloody swath across Oklahoma Territory, leaving behind a trail of corpses, slaughtering whole families on isolated farms and stealing their livestock. Deputy U. S. Marshal Jack Slade has been given the job of bringing back the butchers - alive. Slade follows the trail of bloodshed to the town of Paradise, where the citizens are up in arms, suspecting the Cherokees on a local reservation of committing...

It was the happiest day of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade's life -- until a gang of roughnecks broke it up and shot his bride. Now in a coma, Slade's bride-to-be faces a slim chance for a full recovery. With his heart broken and filled with vengeance, the Lawman sets out to pursue the gang that broke up his Oklahoma wedding and raided the Cherokee reservation. Teaming up with Little Wolf, Slade follows the gang south toward Mexico to exact justice...

"U.S. Marshal Jack Slade dreads the grim routine of hanging days. But this one is anything but routine. Just as the condemned men march to the ropes, shots ring out, three nameless gunmen have bitten the dust, but one has fled. Beware! The silent brotherhood remembers! ... Traitors die, and so shall you! This note from the judge's pocket, along with a single matchbox, is all Slade has to track the gunman." - Taken from cover p. 4.