Leo W Banks

After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous...

Clever ambushes, horrific massacres, and dogged pursuits -- each true story catapults the reader into days of savagery, suspense, and conflict in Arizona Territory. If life was hard, death came even harder.