Book excerpt: He once wore the badge of deputy marshal, but Gideon Hawk no longer abides by the law. Known as the Rogue Lawman, he’s enforcing his own brand of justice across the West—with righteous fury and red-hot lead… Ever haunted by memories of his son’s murder and his wife’s subsequent suicide, Gideon Hawk must choose between starting a new life and the itch to keep bounty hunting—the bounty being the satisfaction of revenge on cold-blooded killers... But U.S. Marshal Flagg, flanked by six other tin stars and armed with a death warrant, might just make up Hawk’s mind for him. Luckily for Hawk, he’s got an old nemesis on his side, a woman who knows her way around him—and around a gun…