Jake Logan is the author of the long-running Slocum western series, featuring the adventures of gunslinger John Slocum.

Slocum is always bad news for outlaws… Despite its name, there's always trouble brewing in the small mining town of Nirvana, Nevada. John Slocum's just riding through, when the comely widow Mrs. Benteen-and newspaper reporter-asks for his help on a scoop about claim-jumpers. If no news is good news, then for Slocum this is downright bad… Slocum reckons he'd rather mosey along, but he's never left a widow-especially a right pretty one-high and dry. But when claim-jumpers find him snooping around Nirvana, Slocum had better defend himself before he makes the papers-the obituaries, that is…