Six feet four inches tall, with sandy hair and greenish eyes. He had been on the frontier since he was fourteen and bore the scars of a hundred battles. But in his heart, Buchanan was a peaceable man. It’s just that trouble and danger seemed to stalk him. An escaped convict named Farnum, a killer with ice in his blood, had shot down a friend. Now Buchanan had to track him down—and the innocent young girl he had taken hostage. It was not going to be easy. Farnum was a very clever man. And very dangerous. But Buchanan was not the only one hunting the outlaw. A crooked lawman with greedy eyes on Farnum’s hidden cache of stolen loot decided to track the killer, too. And if he had to murder Buchanan to get him, he would … William Robert Cox (1901-1988) was a writer for more than sixty years, and published more than seventy-five novels and perhaps one thousand short stories, as well as more than 150 TV shows and several movies on film. He was well into his career, flooding the market with sports, crime, and adventure stories, when he turned to the western novel. He served twice as president of the Western Writers of America, and was writing his fifth Cemetery Jones novel, Cemetery Jones and the Tombstone War, when he passed away. He wrote under at least six pen names, including Willard d’Arcy, Mike Frederic, John Parkhill, Joel Reeve, Roger G. Spellman and, of course, Jonas Ward. Under the Ward byline, he wrote sixteen adventures in the Buchanan series, all of which will be published in ebook by Piccadilly Publishing.