The Mysterious West

Title: The Devil's Peacemaker
Author: Lance Howard
Format: Hardcover
Date of Publication: October 31, 2000
ISBN: 0709067682
Price 10.25
Publisher: Robert Hale Limited
Available from: www.amazon.co.uk

The Devil's Peacemaker by Lance Howard

From the darkest reaches of the Wild West comes a renegade manhunter carrying an ornate gun called the Devil's Peacemaker. Hired by a ruthless cattle baron bent on controlling the territory, Vinton Stroud leaves a trail of bodies, blood and bullets.

When Jim Sutter rides into Holliday looking to settle down and leave his job of manhunting behind, he quickly finds himself embroiled in a life or death struggle. After coming to the aide of a beautiful rancher's daughter seeking to avenge her father's death at the hands of Stroud he discovers himself next on the vicious mankiller's list.

Lured to a sizzling showdown in the dusty deserted streets of Eldorado, the woman he loves held prisoner in a ghost-town House of Usher, Jim faces the greatest--and possibly final--test of his career. Can he overcome the menace of Vinton Stroud--or will he become just another victim of the Devil's Peacemaker?

Howard Hopkins lives in a Maine seacoast town and has published 15 westerns, 9 of which have gone to large print editions, under the penname Lance Howard. He is an Active member of the Western Writers of America. His large print Western THE LAST DRAW is an August 2000 release. He is hard at work on his 17th at the moment, The  Silvermine Spook. During the late 80s- early 90s he produced and edited GOLDEN PERILS, a journal for fans of the pulp
magazines from the 1930s, primarily focusing on Doc Savage, The Avenger and The Shadow.
He produced numerous other magazines in the field and wrote a comprehensive study of The Avenger character, as well as published over fifty articles on pulp characters for various other journals. He plays mandolin, saxophone and guitar.
Author WebPage: http://members.aol.com/hhopk15447/page1.htm
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