Apache chief Geronimo was released from a Florida prison camp on the condition that he must become a farmer in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. The problem was getting the hated chief there alive. General George Crook handed the mission to Sundance.
Sundance and Geronimo set out on a journey destined for blood. The vicious Indian Ring trailed them across the Gulf of Mexico and all the way to Oklahoma, keeping the half-breed's Winchester smoking hot.
Then Geronimo escaped?and Sundance was stranded in a shack surrounded by gunfire with nothing but a five-shot revolver and a big-mouthed woman!

Peter J. McCurtin was born in Ireland on 15 October 1929, and immigrated to America when he was in his early twenties. Records also confirm that, in 1958, McCurtin co-edited the short-lived (one issue) New York Review with William Atkins. By the early 1960s, he was co-owner of a bookstore in Ogunquit, Maine, and often spent his summers there.
McCurtin's first book, Mafioso (1970) was nominated for the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, and filmed in 1973 as The Boss, with Henry Silva. More books in the same vein quickly followed, including Cosa Nostra (1971), Omerta (1972), The Syndicate (1972) and Escape From Devil's Island (1972). 1970 also saw the publication of his first "Carmody" western, Hangtown.
Peter McCurtin died in New York on 27 January 1997. His westerns in particular are distinguished by unusual plots with neatly resolved conclusions, well-drawn secondary characters, regular bursts of action and tight, smooth writing. If you haven't already checked him out, you have quite a treat in store.
McCurtin also wrote under the name of Jack Slade and Gene Curry.