Overview
Over the past three years an elusive gang of bushwhackers has terrorized the San Juan range, killing twenty-six men, women, and children.Sheriff Jeb Moses of Eleanor, Colorado is determined to bring these bushwhackers to justice. A reformed outlaw, Moses believes this is his chance to make amends for past sins.
But when the young son of Joshua Brand, Eleanor's most powerful man, is murdered, Brand hires the famous Pinkerton bounty hunter Paul Kirk to find the bushwhackers.
This doesn't sit well with Moses. Neither does discovering that Brand and Kirk were once best friends, until some dark secret from the Civil War created bad blood between them. Could there be enough bad blood to drive a dangerous man like Kirk to murder?
Author Bio:Steven Philip Jones earned his B.A. in journalism and religion from the University of Iowa in 1990, and was accepted into Iowa's prestigious Writers' Workshop M.F.A. program. His other writing credits include King of Harlem (which bestselling author Clive Cussler called "a gripping read") and over 50 comic books, including the original series Nightlinger and Street Heroes 2005. Jones and his family live in Iowa. Readers are welcome to visit www.stevenpjones.com. Bushwhackers is Steven Jones' first western with AVALON.