When George Markstein arrives in Arizonaβflashing money and barking ordersβit doesn't take long for trouble to start. The Eastern dandy just bought into a turquoise mineβand who knows what else.
Hiring the Gunsmith to protect his interests was about the best move he could have made. Clint knows how business is done out West. Unfortunately, so do the two men hired to kill Markstein...
J.R. RobertsΒ (Robert J. Randisi) is an American author who writes in the Detective and Western genres. He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories.Β BooklistΒ magazine said he "may be the last of the pulp writers."
He co-founded and editedΒ Mystery SceneΒ magazine and co-founded the American Crime Writers League. He founded The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981, where he created the Shamus Award.