Cutthroat Comancheros, wandering banditos, the Mexican Army, the Fourth Cavalry-and Miss Vanessa Fontaine-all want Duane Braddock, who has the fastest gun in the West and much more than a price on his head. But it is the Apaches who leave him for dead in the Coahuilian Desert. Found by a ragtag outlaw band led by an ex-Confederate soldier, Braddock is brought back to the land of the living. By the time he is well enough to run, a greedy plan to seize half-a-million dollars of Army payroll is in place. The dynamite is set, the fuse is lit, and the Pecos Kid has to pick: kill or die.

Originally published under the pen name Jack Bodine

Len Levinson served in the Army from 1954 to 1957 and graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in social science. He relocated to New York that year and worked as an advertising copywriter and public relations executive before becoming a full-time novelist. Len created and wrote a number of series and now has more than eighty published titles to his credit.