Hawk

Jared Hawk was a gunfighter. His talent for killing was up for hire. Philip Garrett hired Hawk to take him and his niece, Sarah Lee, through to Los Angeles, but a pack of professional guns blocked the road. Before Hawk reached the City of the Angels all his gun skills were brought to bloody use, and the old California trail was marked with gravestones…

When Jared Hawk helped the black gunman, Aaron Turner, bring in a wanted man it was one more job. He didn't know he was riding into the hellfire center of a range war. Nor that he'd find himself on the other side, facing Turner over the blazing muzzle of a Colt. 45. But Hawk had a simple coded: kill first and ask questions later. If there was anyone alive to answer ...

Jared Hawk rode into Santa Maria on the trail of a Mexican outlaw with a $1,000 bounty on his head. But the townsfolk needed to get to safety, away from hostile Apache Indians. With the prospect go another grand in his pocket, he took on the job. Down a trail that was lined with blood-hungry Indians and a young Mexican who wanted him dead.

The hangman’s rope! Jared Hawk stank of death. It hung about him like gunsmoke and the sour smell of drying blood. He took a job riding herd on a prisoner due to be hanged. It should have been simple. Before Hawk could earn his four hundred dollars and the hangman could settle his rope around the killer’s neck, Hawk’s gun was back in action and the stench of death hung in the air.

Jared Hawk wasn’t looking for a fight. But he wasn’t walking away when the Mexican called him out - he killed the pistolero. And his brother, Luis Brava took his revenge, leaving Hawk to die. Big mistake. Hawk wasn’t the kind of man to die easy. He went looking for his own vengeance. When he got hired to track the Brava gang he had two reasons for doing the job the only way he knew how: violently!

The settlers at Rising Star just about had enough of James Hunter and his bullying ways. They turned to Jared Hawk to clean up their town. He took their star and promised to deal with Hunter, one way or another. He didn’t go back on his word when he faced Hunter’s hired guns. Or when he learned the truth about the woman who hired him. Or when he found out just who they wanted him to kill …

One thousand dollars waited for Hawk if he could deliver the bull - 1700 pounds of pure killing machine - down the long trail to Mexico City. What he didn't know was that someone had posted a contract on the animal, so he faced enemies at both ends of the trail. But Hawk had a direct answer to anyone who tried to stop him … it came flaming from the barrel of his gun!

Wrongly jailed by the marshal of Eagle Pass, Jared Hawk was given a choice. Hang or go after the Kincaid Gang who had raided the town. They were a mean bunch but Hawk was all killer, And set off to clear his name the only way he know how ... with a gun.

When Ben King's beautiful wife is kidnapped, he turns to Jared Hawk to bring her back and kill the men who took her. The money was good and the job didn't seem to be too difficult. That was until he got tangled in a spider's web of lethal intrigue...

It was just another poker game, until Hawk drew the dead man’s hand. Aces and eights, the hand Hickok was holding when he went down in a hail of bullets. The hand that meant somebody was going to die but Hawk wasn’t the one who died that night ...