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J.D. Miller, aka The Lawyer, continues to hunt the men that slaughtered his family. His next target is Jules Despare who's been riding with the Selkirk gang robbing banks. When the town of Emmett, Texas, is marked by the hardcases and the local marshal murdered, The Lawyer is asked by the town's influential residents to track down the reprehensible outfit. But he has little use for the narrow-minded bigots that won't stand behind the remaining deputy-a black man named Ernest Tell. After Tell resigns, he suggests a partnership with The Lawyer who refuses. It's obvious, though, these two avengers are gunning for the same men and will eventually work together to settle old scores in THE RETRIBUTIONERS. Best-selling, Western hardboiled author Wayne D. Dundee (The Empty Badge, The Guns of Vedauwoo) pens his second Lawyer book that is based on characters created by Edward A. Grainger, author of the Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles series.

Nothing escaped Ron Scheer's sharp eye. In the course of preparing his magisterial work on early western fiction, he came across countless phrases, words, and usages that were unfamiliar to modern readers. The novels he was examining ranged from the late 19th century well into the 20th, and contained vernacular that had vanished. He set to work recording these phrases, including their context, and their numbers multiplied over the years. Many of these phrases were at least a century old, and were connected to the social circumstances and technology of the times. As the world changed, so did language. Allusions to horses and buggies, steam engines, open-range ranching, and all the social proprieties of that period departed stage right, while new words, new vernacular crowded into our consciousness stage left. He no doubt realized that for modern readers to grasp what those long-gone authors were saying, and the social events they were describing, some sort of glossary would be necessary. Otherwise, the pages of these novels would be crowded with gibberish. The ability to translate these mysterious allusions and phrases into something modern readers can comprehend is a portal into other times. ... It illuminates a lost world, but it also illuminates Mr. Scheer's genius. --Richard S. Wheeler, Spur Award-winning author From the introduction of How the West Was Written Vol. 3 * * * * * PRAISE FOR HOW THE WEST WAS WRITTEN VOL. 3 "I learn something new every time I open this book, and I've been writing Westerns and studying the Old West for more than thirty years. This volume of Ron Scheer's magnificent trilogy is destined to be an indispensable reference work, just like the first two books." --James Reasoner Author of Outlaw Ranger "Ron Scheer's study of the novels and the language and everyday talk of the Old West continues to delight and amaze me. What is most astounding is how few of the terms remain in use today. They're embedded in a life long-gone and you have little hope of intuiting them. But Ron Scheer took on the task and consequently this language, this jargon is not lost. A few of my personal favorite terms are Back of the Beyond, Hell's Half-Acre and Prunes and Prisms. You'll have to consult this marvelous book to find out just what these terms mean! Also included in the glossary are the names of songs, books, hymns, and people who made up the Old West. A monumental task executed with grace and skill. Highly recommended." --Patricia Abbott Derringer Award winner and author of Concrete Angel "Expertly realized, finely crafted, Ron Scheer's third volume of How the West Was Written continues to delight, surprise and challenge me both as a casual reader and writer of Western fiction. It's not just firmly established in my top five go-to research books, it's one of my favorite books, period." --Richard Prosch Author of the "Holt County" Western series "How the West Was Written is an essential volume for anyone interested in the history of the American west, particularly writers, historians, and those interested in language. Richard Wheeler provides an excellent introduction." --Bill Crider Macavity Award winner and author of Too Late to Die

The Lawyer should have heeded the ominous signs: a forest fire raging in the distance and the undertaker's wagon carrying away two knife-stabbed bodies. But he's a man obsessed, methodically hunting down the gang members who murdered his family, and Big Jim Kimbrough, his latest target, isn't far from the hell-blazing inferno. In a surprise turn, Kimbrough gets the jump on The Lawyer and leaves him for dead; though fortune is in his corner when a trio of frontier women find him and nurse him back to health. It's not long before Kimbrough learns The Lawyer is still alive. Desperate to rub out the man who's been dogging him, the outlaw goes gunning for The Lawyer again, determined this time to finish the job. Eric Beetner (The Year I Died Seven Times) writes the Old West with the same terse, action-packed grit as his crime fiction. BLOOD MOON is his second riveting "Lawyer" tale following the highly praised Six Guns at Sundown.

Seething hatred spurs The Lawyer forward, with a burning vengeance for his family slaughtered by seven hardened gunslingers. He's tracking them down, one by one, until every killer is in the ground. His next target, Big Jim Kimbrough, left tracks to the small town of Sundown, Arkansas, where The Lawyer learns his prey has already moved on. But he can't leave after he witnesses a black man named Josiah being dragged behind a horse, the man's only crime is allegedly taking food from a white man's table, and is about to be lynched. The Lawyer takes up arms to save Josiah, realizing Kimbrough is slipping from his grasp with every minute he spends in Sundown. None of that will matter, though, if The Lawyer doesn't survive the next twelve hours in the wake of a racially charged mob, fueled by the town's tyrant and cheap liquor. Eric Beetner (The Year I Died Seven Times) is no stranger to writing terse, action-packed storylines. He shifts his gifted prose from modern crime tales to the gritty world of the Old West without missing a beat. SIX GUNS AT SUNDOWN is a riveting Western that continually tightens its grip to the last provocative page.