Robert Knott

Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black's murder charge was dropped. But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs was transferred to a stateside penitentiary just across the border from Mexico. Square-jawed, handsome, and built like a muscled thoroughbred stallion, Driggs manages to intimidate everyone inside the prison walls, including the upstart young warden....

Investigating a major bank robbery only to discover its primary suspect severely beaten outside a high-class brothel, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch are forced to rely on a recently captured bandito for clues to a high-stakes Cain-and-Abel vengeance quest.

When a flashy, womanizing casino owner, who is implicated in a series of murders, disappears, Cole and Hitch set out on his trail.

Continues the adventures of characters created by the late Robert B. Parker and finds Territorial Marshalls Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch escorting a group of Mexican prisoners on a train trip to the border, only to find the journey complicated by the Governor of Texas and a vengeful outlaw from Virgil's past.