Book excerpt: One infamous pirate has sailors shivering in their timbers… He’s a quickdraw, a cow-punch, and a lady’s man. But lawman Custis Long will be the first to admit he’s no sailor. So when duty brings him down the Texas coast to investigate the fishy disappearance of a loaded ship, the landlubber reckons he’ll need a crash course in the maritime arts. And if a voluptuous lady-captain wants to teach him, all the better… Tales of Bloody Tom Mahone, a murderous Gulf pirate, have kept many a sailor planted on solid ground lately. Locals claim they’ve spotted his black masts—even Bloody Tom himself—searching for his legendary treasure. But the cutthroat’s been dead around eighty years—and Longarm’s answers may well lie in the depths of the ocean…