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Brothers of
the Gun
Sequel to Dark Trail To
Dodge
ReadWest Paperback Pick!
Former Texas Ranger John Checker doesn’t realize
the
price he must pay when half-brother Star
McCallister
and his gang escape from the Dodge City jail.
They
take his sister’s children into the treacherous Indian
Nations. Riding with the Ranger to find them are a border outlaw, a
farmboy and a savvy black drover -- and a wolf as his spirit
guide. Star McCallister, the evil half-brother of John
Checker, former Texas Ranger, escapes from the Dodge City jail,
along with his gang, where they awaited hanging. He was helped by
his younger brother, Blue McCallister, a killer-for-hire who now
presents himself as "Dr. Gambree" and travels with a medicine wagon
show. The freed gang ride for the homestead of John Checker's sister
as the ultimate way to hurt him. They kill his sister's husband,
nearly kill her, burn their home and kidnap her children. Star
intends to trade the youngsters to Comancheros in the Indian Nations
before riding on. Tyrel Bannon, Sonny Jones and Jackson -- Triple C
drovers still in town after the drive -- ride with Checker to find
them. Checker turns to the the spiritual advice from a dead friend,
a Comanche war chief, to track them. Checker nearly becomes his own
worst nightmare, his raging evil father, in the ultimate
confrontation with his evil half-brothers.
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