Six Bad Men

SIX BAD MEN

Six outlaws. Thirty-one thousand dollars in stolen gold. One marshal who won't quit.

Thirty-one thousand, four hundred dollars in stolen gold. A dead boy. Six bad men riding hard across the American frontier.

Federal Marshal Eldridge Sample has a new set of warrants, six names, and a job that needs doing.

The robbery at the Sebastian County Bank was fast, brutal, and deadly. The gang left one young victim behind, and the men responsible scattered across the Territory with a fortune in gold and every intention of keeping it. Among them are a cold-blooded killer with yellow hair, a pale and calculating leader, a gray-coated gunman who never misses a detail, and a former bank clerk who knows exactly how the money disappeared.

The law wants them brought back alive.

The law has never had to follow their trail.

Eldridge Sample is no ordinary lawman. Patient, observant, and stubborn enough to follow a trail through flood-swollen rivers and hostile country, he knows that the smallest detail can expose the biggest lie. A damaged horseshoe, a stolen saddle, a scrap of gray wool, a witness who talks too much—or not enough—can mean the difference between catching a killer and ending up in a shallow grave.

But Sample isn't the only man hunting the six outlaws.

Ambrose Hake, a hard-bitten bounty hunter with a deadly rifle and his own ideas about justice, is determined to collect the reward. With competing agendas, dangerous encounters, and a trail that grows bloodier by the mile, the pursuit becomes a race in which the hunters may be just as ruthless as their prey.

And the six men aren't staying together.

Old loyalties are cracking. Greed is replacing trust. The stolen fortune is turning accomplices against one another, and the man who planned the robbery has no intention of sharing equally with anyone who might become a liability.

Across the muddy roads, river crossings, whiskey camps, and remote trading posts of the Old West, Marshal Sample follows the evidence toward a final reckoning where every man will have to answer for what he's done.

Some men will surrender.

Some will run.

Some will discover that the law has a very long memory.

SIX BAD MEN is a gritty, action-packed Western thriller featuring a relentless frontier lawman, outlaw gangs, a deadly bank robbery, stolen gold, bounty hunters, gunfights, hard country, and the brutal consequences of greed. With sharp dialogue, dangerous men, hard-earned justice, and the dark humor of the untamed frontier, this is a Western adventure for readers who love classic cowboy action with a tougher, more modern edge.

Six bad men rode out with the money. Marshal Eldridge Sample intends to find every last one of them.