Brief description:
BYERS LIVED IN HIS OWN DAMNATION
- a pathetic torment of raving fear, soothed by booze and camouflaged by an arrogance that made every one of the men despise him. He wasn’t bad. He was simply a desk-man, a flunky with visions of grandeur, suddenly thrown into a frontier land that ate men raw and spat out their dreams.
Yet this was the man assigned to lead the secret foray deep into Mexican territory - a deadly ride for a rescue that was strictly forbidden by law, by Washington, by all the odds for coming out alive. And this was his chance for glory and power.
Just one man stood a chance of defying him - a quiet man with a lightning draw. A soldier named Will Thursday, who knew there was only one hope for survival; to lead the men through an even worse hell than Byers had already done...
done. . . .
- a pathetic torment of raving fear, soothed by booze and camouflaged by an arrogance that made every one of the men despise him. He wasn’t bad. He was simply a desk-man, a flunky with visions of grandeur, suddenly thrown into a frontier land that ate men raw and spat out their dreams.
Yet this was the man assigned to lead the secret foray deep into Mexican territory - a deadly ride for a rescue that was strictly forbidden by law, by Washington, by all the odds for coming out alive. And this was his chance for glory and power.
Just one man stood a chance of defying him - a quiet man with a lightning draw. A soldier named Will Thursday, who knew there was only one hope for survival; to lead the men through an even worse hell than Byers had already done...
done. . . .
Publication
Fawcett Publications