The Shadow Man Author:F.M. Parker The time is 1846, with the United States and Mexico poised for war over the American Southwest. The place is New Mexico, where fur trapper Jacob Tamarron has come after years as a legendary mountain man. Tamaarron is weary of solitude and brutal struggle for survival, and he finds the new life he is looking for in Petra, the proud and fiery Mexi... more »can woman he marries, and on the sprawling ranch he buys.
Then, with savage suddenness, that new life is ripped apart-his woman gone, his ranch destroyed. He has run afoul of two of the most vicious men ever to ravage the West: James Kirker, a professional Indian killer out to make a fortune in blood money, and Simon Caverhill, a Texas senator carving out an empire from the land of butchered victims.« less