4 mercenaries are hauling freight into the wilderness. One of their number is willing to betray them for the gold he is sure awaits them at the end of the trail.
The Sundown Riders gallop into thier fourth adventure, Devil's Canyon, which finds the four mercenaries on a mission delivering dynamite through the desert to a Utah Gold Mine. But a treacherous undercover outlaw within thier ranks will make their journey that much more dangerous.
Historical Fiction 1870 New Mexico area
from the back of the book-
"They are four hired guns who haul freight for a price into the treachrous, untamed wilderness. As tough and unyielding as the land itself, they've already risked their lives for the Confederacy. Now they're fighting for themselves-and for a stake in in the future-on the great frontier. Led by the poker-playing Faro Duval, these soldiers fo fortune are about to take the biggest gamble of all: delivering an explosive cargo from Santa Fe to southwestern Utah. Thier destination is Devil's Canyon... and a mountain of gold.
But there's a wild card in the crew: a man who is one jump ahead of an unsavory past and one piece of silver away from selling them out. In a land of savage outlaws and hostile Utes, with a rattlesnake named Has Surham in their midst, Duval and his men are running out of time and out of luck. All they have on their side is a load of dynamite... and a matchless courage that will reverberate across the unblazed Western trails.....
from the back of the book-
"They are four hired guns who haul freight for a price into the treachrous, untamed wilderness. As tough and unyielding as the land itself, they've already risked their lives for the Confederacy. Now they're fighting for themselves-and for a stake in in the future-on the great frontier. Led by the poker-playing Faro Duval, these soldiers fo fortune are about to take the biggest gamble of all: delivering an explosive cargo from Santa Fe to southwestern Utah. Thier destination is Devil's Canyon... and a mountain of gold.
But there's a wild card in the crew: a man who is one jump ahead of an unsavory past and one piece of silver away from selling them out. In a land of savage outlaws and hostile Utes, with a rattlesnake named Has Surham in their midst, Duval and his men are running out of time and out of luck. All they have on their side is a load of dynamite... and a matchless courage that will reverberate across the unblazed Western trails.....
Joan W. (justreadingabook) reviewed Devil's Canyon (Sundown Riders, Bk 4) on + 1726 more book reviews
Excellent! My hubby is the one who reads the westerns and I ask him what he thought. Excellent is what he said.
Very good book! Author delivers just as expected.
