Part of Series
Tuc and Potak are requested a favor from the Texas Rangers to come out of retirement and do one last service for the U.S. Army. They are never too old to go on a mission of honor and mercy; they agree to locate white women and children, captured by Comanche and Apache, and rescue them to bring them back to their homes and families, saving their honor. They agree undeterred. They set out for an Apache camp said to have enslaved whites and Mexicans. James Boot, alias the Sinner Killer, waits for his two unlikely Tonkawa friends to arrive in Eagles Pass, Texas, as promised upon their departure. At the same time, Potak went on yet another spiritual journey, and Tuc went to a forbidden powwow, the Tonkawa Wolf Dance. James waits until an old medicine man comes to find him and take him to Tuc, who is said to be in trouble. Major John. L. Bully just got out of West Point, graduating at the top of his class. He requests a transfer to the frontier, where the Indian Wars continue into their fourth decade. Finally, his dream comes true, and he gets permission to seek out what he considers savage dogs. He is allowed to pick twenty men to accompany him at his request. The major is also attached an experienced grizzly Indian fighter, Master Sergeant Rex Hanger. He has twenty years of experience fighting Sioux, Comanche, and Apache. He is as hard as nails, knows the lay of the land, and eats bullets for breakfast. An Apache tribe hides deep in the desert, away from greedy eyes, attempting to avoid the dangerous violence that floods Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. They only seek a peaceful life away from white people, which is difficult in current times. The massive civilization machine is marching unstoppably toward the last of the Indian holdouts. As the entities merge to a single point, the heavens divide, spirits play games on the participants, and the unexpected occurs. With the Indian ways, white man’s rules don’t apply. Will the captured white people find their deliverance, and American justice is served? Will the U.S. Army continue to be the hunter, the punisher, and seek revenge?
Author
Ash Lingam is an Amazon Best Selling Author. He has written over one hundred novels and short stories in the Western genre. He has published nine series about the Texas Rangers, US Marshals, and Bounty Hunters, and his new additions to the Frontier & Pioneer Western Fiction—the Mountain Men series. Ash was born on a ranch in the Midwestern United States. It was during a time when Westerns were magical both at the movies and on television. As a boy, he collected Indian arrowheads in the fields and rode his horse, Sugar, in the woods as he played cowboys and Indians. From age twelve, he hunted to put food on the family table when his grandpa, Pop, gave him his first double-barrel shotgun—at eight taught him how to trap in our ponds and the creeks at the end of our property. Growing up in the country with horses and guns made the transition to an author of the Old West an effortless journey. Some say Ash Lingam is the fastest writer in the West. Ash says; When inspiration hits me, from when I open my eyes in the morning until I fall asleep at night, I let my fingers dance across the keyboards, anxious to see what will happen next in the story in my mind’s eye. Ash Lingam
