Legend in the Dust (Vintage Paperback) by Frank O'Rourke

THE KILLER HAD A READY SMILE.
THE LAWMAN HAD A GUN
HE DIDN'T WANT TO USE...

"Shotgun Pat" Glendon was a former U.S. marshal searching for a life of peace and quiet. Buck was a charming outlaw whose recklessness spelled danger. The two men had no quarrel; they might even have been friends. But Fort Ellis was a town where the law had broken down. Once Buck started killing, he was called a legend-and Glendon was the man who had to hunt him down.

In his powerful, gripping novels, Frank O'Rourke captures the raw conflicts and hard realism of the American West. A master storyteller, he makes the lawless, brutal frontier come dramatically alive.

"Frank O'Rourke has a special way with words which frequently lends touches of beauty to what is already a fast-paced narrative." -The Christian Science Monit