“Buchanan, we all know about that little gun in your belt buckle. Put your hands behind your head.” The crowd had come to see Buchanan’s buddy, Coco Bean, fight in the ring. The Cutler gang, however, wasn’t interested in the odds, only the take, which they planned to steal. About the only thing standing between the Cutlers and all that money was Buchanan. And what they wanted almost as much as the money was to see Buchanan dead. So they baited the trap with his lusty lady friend, Madeline Velvet—and waited for Buchanan... 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.