Tonkawa scouts, Tuc and Potak, have spent most of their adult lives assisting once-hated lawmen and soldiers in eradicating warring bands of tribes across Texas. Fueled by the memories of savage attacks the Indian Nations perpetrated against their loved ones, the duo provides the U.S. Army and Texas Rangers with cunning and determination uncommon in the early to mid-1800s. Tuc, the fierce warrior, allows no mercy when avenging the atrocities perpetrated against his loved ones. Potak, his wise and spiritual counterpart, charts their path through visions and provides the magic that helps the scouts disappear in the blink of an eye.“Tonkawa” recounts how their quest for revenge began. The motives behind the havoc and wrath they wage across the Texas landscape.

For four decades ghost-like Tonkawa cousins, Tuc and Potak, have exacted deadly revenge against the Comanche Indians. Whether it be working for the Texas Rangers and Capt. Bates or for the Army back in the day of Buffalo Hump during the height of the Comanche Conflict. Suddenly when it appears most of their adversaries have been escorted to reservations, a lone renegade with more grit than most, Raven, is committed to doing what his forefathers could not - kill the last remaining enemies of the Penateka Comanche.Raven recruits the help of a thirty-man war party from a reservation in the southwestern Oklahoma Territories. The aging Tonkawa enlist the aid of an old Army friend, Lt. Davie Hart, a solider who had been as mean as a grizzly bear in his youth. After he left the Army, Hart worked as a marshal and a sheriff, bouncing from one town to the next until Potak convinced him to take one more tough challenge. Finally, the odds are reduced to ten to one. Who will survive the bloodbath that ensues? Once again Ash Lingam takes us on a Western Fiction Adventure through the Old West as we observe through the eyes of the author and the new country they encounter in their adventures across Texas and beyond.

From the Amazon bestselling author of Texas Ranger, Capt. Bates and the Sundog Series. Ash Lingam brings you an exciting new western thriller, Seven Sinners, Tonkawa, Tuc & Potak #4. Once upon a time in the west, a white man lived among the Northern Plains Indians. He professed to be a man of God, but his vengeful nature was full of violence and fury. He adopted the ways of the northern tribes and lived in peace with the natives until white men began to encroach on the land of those who had lived there for hundreds of years. So, he takes up arms against the invading horde of evil men who commit the Seven Deadly Sins . When Tuc and Potak adopt a wild dog, their lives change forever. They discover there is much more to the wolf-like beast than meets the eye. The famed medicine man believes it possesses some, unknown, knowledge. The legendary vigilante appears in a dream to warn Potak that he and Tuc can neither escape nor hide from the danger that looms on the horizon. The Sinner Killer is coming to Texas to seek revenge, and he will choose a path that intertwines with that of the mysterious shaman and the fierce warrior. As the forces of good and evil collide, the Tonkawa cousins are thrown into a vortex so violent they will be lucky to survive. Adventure abounds in “Seven Sinners,” Ash Lingam's fourth installment of the popular Tuc & Potak series. Fast-paced and gritty, the tale shows the struggle between good and evil, and justice served. It will leave you gasping for air until the very end.

From the moment the Sinner Killer barged into Tuc and Potak’s lives, they had not been the same. When he entered their world, they were dropped into a swirling whirlwind of violence and restitution. From the start, they knew their lives would remain intertwined until destiny dictated otherwise. As the wolf appeared and disappeared the Tonkawa wondered if the white man, known as the Sinner Killer, and the shaggy beast were one and the same. Or was this just more of the white men’s magic to trick the Indians out of what had been theirs for hundreds—no, thousands of years. As they attempt to take some time off after seeking revenge on the Seven Sinners a dark cloud threatens their future. What they had assumed to be an accomplished mission turns out to be the beginning of a dangerous adventure. Chased by both the American law and a large Apache war party their future is left in doubt.

The U.S. Army unit, the Deadly Dozen, ride south at the bidding of the politicians in Washington D.C. and Mexico City. They have orders to stop the Apache raids along the border and to eliminate the threat at all costs. Forty Mexican Federales join them to flush out the hostiles in a hidden stronghold deep in the mountains. The renegade Apache prepares to make a last stand. Will justice prevail? The Tonkawa shaman Potak wanders off searching for the Sacred Mountain as Tuc and James Boot spy on the military patrol as they cross the Rio Grande and head south deep into Mexico. The officer in charge is Col. Rick Dodge—an infamous Indian Fighter from the years past. He and his men are taking scalps at a hundred dollars a head and are looking to get rich quick. It is a hunt to the death, and they are heading for and Devil’s Canyon and the Apache in the pass. The Sinner Killer propels the trio toward the unknown as they seek a way to save the Indian stronghold and wreak the wrath on those who commit the seven deadly sins. An old black dog appears to lead the way.

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?