A brand new Western adventure from Paul L. Thompson! U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson and Texas Ranger J.C. Hulsey sat around a corral in Pecos, Texas for days and days. They had four of the best ranger deputies with them. Word should have already come about a gang of cut-throat Mexican banditos that had been raiding southwest Texas for months. Each day they met the train, but no word. “Shorty, what do you think of taking several hundred rounds of ammunition an’ goin’ into Mexico after um?” “Like to, J.C. Best we wait a while longer. I’d shor like to get um on this side of the border. Over there they know the country. We don’t.” The very next morning, word came. The small town of Fort Stockton had been hit, the bank robbed and buildings set on fire. Shorty yelled, “Saddle up! Time to ride!”