Book excerpt: Texan born Tom Horn was a notorious bounty hunter during the decades in the closing scene of the nineteenth century and the Old West. A man considered by many to be a hero and by others an assassin. An Army scout who lived off this cash for flesh enterprise. He learned his skills of tracking and speaking the native languages from the Apache tribes. Then he used this same knowledge to kill those very people who had taught him. As he worked farther west and into California Horn encountered his old enemies, Rancor Maleficent and Marshal Hoss Cole. The ever-humorous Roberto Rodriguez brings this unlikely crew together to make a final strike against the violent outlaws of the far West. Once again Ash Lingam gives us a vivid canvas like description of the Old West and the characters who lived, fought and died there. He shows us the hardships and the humor along with a dose of romance and a passel of lead and gun-smoke. (Gunslinger Series #3)