Bøker av Ed Law

After getting involved in a saloon room brawl in Fort Lord, Dalton is arrested. His situation worsens when an unsympathetic judge sentences him to a year in jail unless he takes the alternative of signing up with the Plains Cavalry.Dalton reckons that anything will be better than breaking rocks, but when he joins Company H - known as Company Hell - he soon regrets his decision. The troopers are a motley collection of prisoners recruited from jailhouses, or gunslingers running from arrest warrants.As his fellow troopers are more determined to destroy the peace than to keep it, Dalton will need all his survival skills to serve out his term and all his ingenuity to defeat their plans.

When Dalton accepts that his quest to find his missing sister is impossible, he abandons it, but with his endeavors having led to him borrowing money he can't repay, he faces the wrath of his lenders. A trip to Boot Hill beckons until Deputy Larry Doyle intervenes and saves Dalton's life.Shortly afterward, the courageous deputy mysteriously disappears and nobody knows what happened to him, so Dalton embarks on a new quest to find his savior, a mission that takes him to the lawless outlaw haven of Gothic. There he will become embroiled in a world of shifting loyalties, betrayals and an ever deepening mystery concerning the fate of the missing deputy.

The recent deaths of people close to him have left Dalton at his lowest ebb. Afoot and with only a few dollars to his name he takes refuge in Abner Whitlock's trading post.When a riverboat captain gets into a fight with Abner, Dalton intervenes, but in the ensuing scuffle Abner and Captain Chattoway end up dead. Dalton gets a chance to make amends for his actions when he's given the task of completing the captain's seemingly routine mission to deliver whiskey to the Ruby Lady saloon.Dalton soon discovers that this mission isn't all it seems. He has a battle on his hands and it's a fight that may just give him hope for the future.

When Dalton finds out that he has a sister, he vows to track down his only kin, but his quest falters at the first hurdle. The orphanage where they lived has burned down and nobody remembers anything about the place and the children who were housed there.Dalton is relieved when he learns that records still exist of their time at the orphanage. Unfortunately, they are locked away in the mayor's office and Mayor Quantrill won't let anyone see them.To get the information he wants Dalton will have to return to a way of life he had abandoned long ago and become a thief, an act that risks once again making him a wanted man.