BEAR HASKELL - U.S. MARSHAL
by Peter Brandvold

US Marshal Bear Haskell has been assigned to throw the cuffs on a notoriously mysterious and slippery-as-hell regulator named Jack Hyde who's cunning and devious methods of killing those he's been paid to kill, has gotten him dubbed "the Jackal." As the bodies pile up on the west Texas desert, and more jackals rear their ugly heads in Sundown, Haskell finds himself rethinking not only who Jack Hyde might be riding for, and why he's killing, but also just who he really is ...

In this first adventure, US Marshal Bear Haskell has been given the sour assignment of going after the man or men who killed his old friend, Lou Cameron. Cameron was the town marshal of Diamondback, a small, dusty settlement in the wilds of Wyoming Territory—until someone back-shot him. Bear's relationship with Lou Cameron was complicated. They fought together in the War of Southern Rebellion, but when they came west they both ended up falling into the web of the same intoxicating Southern belle, Suellen Treadwell. What does Cameron's death have to do with a remote, burned-out cabin and two fresh graves? In a heart drawn atop one of the graves is a small hide pouch with a ring in it... If Bear Haskell can survive an ambush and a savage hanging from a group of cutthroats led by an ugly man named Krantz, he just might live to exact a reckoning for his old friend Lou.