Brian Hutchison

He wasn't born to the gun. But a gunman's blood ran in his veins - and it was only a matter of time before there would be hell to pay.... Six days of killing. No day of rest.... Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, and now the current occupant of a cell in the brutal and unforgiving Hell Gate...

In the heart of West Texas an ocean of troubles has come ashore and the Loner is adrift in a sea of hungry sharks. They came from the sea: a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother A former pirate named Black Terrance Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it would be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening,...