Blade by Matt Chisholm

BLADE—Slow to anger, fast with a gun and no slouch with women. A man tempered by the West, dangerous living and a perpetual gamble with death. THE WOMEN—the Indian girl: lovely waif of a grisly massacre. The Mexican girl: mettlesome as a thoroughbred filly; heiress to half New Mexico. THE KILLERS—blind to mercy, indifferent to death, scourge of the West. From the author of the STORM Family saga

They gambled bloodily with the lives of innocent men and women using mayhem and murder to fulfil their ambitions. The prize in their deadly gamble was the Territory of Arizona. Law and order rested in the hands of Joe Blade, Charity Clayton and veteran scout George McMasters. The Tucson Ring had penetrated all walks of life in the Territory - just two men and a woman stood between them and power

Even the Texas Rangers and the local law held back from the two powerful, land-hungry millionaires. Joe Blade was the only man left to challenge them. They ambushed him, bushwhacked him and tried to run him out of town, but he survived. Meeting violence with violence, Blade would never surrender until he had concluded the Laredo Assigment.

Pecos country – tough on horses, hell for women. Land where Kiowas hunted horses, Comanches looked for loot, Mescaleros hunted the white man-and Joe Blade hunted a child killer. He knew he rode to his own possible death at the hands of the Indians. But he had no choice, for in his hands lay Western justice and the fate of the white girl in the lonely Pecos ranch house.

Doke Struther had checked in his gun for a bottle of whiskey and looked like he would not survive. That was until Joe Blade came along asking for help in getting two beautiful women to Denver in one piece. But Harry Lister and his a bunch of murdering hardcases are after the women and their gold. An explosive mixture if ever there was—can they survive the blast?

The Mexican Proposition was the creation of a new state comprising Northern Mexico and the southwestern United States—the Republic of the Rio Grande. Porfirio Rojas and his band of traitors raised the new flag and relied upon a secret weapon for victory. They were opposed by Doke Struther, George McMasters, Joe Blade—and Charity Clayton. Their job was to defeat the new republic … or die trying!

Joe Blade was hunting for the men who had murdered his mother and father. All their lives Cy Hartman and Carl Roe had concealed their guilty secret—and grew rich and powerful on it. When Blade went against them they hired the best killers to bring him down. At the end of a trail of death, they wondered if they’d bitten off more than they could chew.

Years ago Warren Haffner had ridden fearfully down the Navaho Trail with the great Kit Carson. Now he was coming back for revenge. In his path stood Joe Blade and Charity Clayton, who would rather be exchanging vows with each other than shots with the enemy. And in the bloody Indian uprising that followed the murder of the Navaho chief, men died as they had lived – violently and in vain.

Mayhem, murder and a maverick sheriff in what was surely the craziest and wildest plot Blade ever got mixed up in. Lawmen and outlaws want his hide as he moves in the shadow of the hangman's noose. A violent and fast-moving climax to Joe Blade's cyclonic career.

Posset was the stranger who held it. Chavez was the Mexican who worked it and Geronimo baptized it with blood. Arizona was a wild, forbidding land. The Indians had possessed it since the beginning of time, and they prized their freedom. The white men were newcomers who hungered for gold, silver, cattle and the land itself. Their clash was bloody and violent with Joe Blade in the middle of it all.

THE NEVADA MUSTANG was the famous spotted stallion sought after by all men who had horse fever. Chavez, Little Wolf, Marty Carr, the gunman and Joe Blade. They had one thing in common the hope that it would be their rope that snared the great Appaloosa mustang. They were ready to kill for him. It was one of the greatest horse hunts of all time a hunt which led four men to their final destiny.

There was treasure to be had and five people wanted it. All but two of them knew what and where it was. Joe Blade was trying hard not to be hanged by the town marshal of Cheyenne. All too soon he is drawn into the violent human drama set against the massive backdrop of the West. And with a stunning indifference to death they were out to break the Montana Deadlock.