He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when young Tom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on a fast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had big dreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figured that a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect for the job. He didn't know that a high-stakes cattle drive was headed his way and that leading it was a vindictive rancher bent on settling an old score, even if he had to destroy the town to do it. Tom had ...
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He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when young Tom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on a fast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had big dreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figured that a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect for the job. He didn't know that a high-stakes cattle drive was headed his way and that leading it was a vindictive rancher bent on settling an old score, even if he had to destroy the town to do it. Tom had himself stuck in the middle of the feud before sunset on his first day in town. All he could do was hope that his years on the Bowery had left him with the smarts he needed to keep himself alive.
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Tom Shanaghy is another of Louis L'Amour's Irish spalpeens who arrives in the west dirty and broke and looking for work. And with the only job being open being the marshal's he takes it. Good with fists, and strong as an ox, he believes he can handle who ever and what ever shows up in town, but he didn't figure on vengeful trail drivers or an outfit of gold thieves to contend with. This is a good enough book to read with plenty of action--especially fist fights--L'Amour's speciality as he was a pro boxer himself at one point in his varied life. If you like him as a writer at all, then you will like this book.