Call Me Hazard

Returning to the town of Stinking Springs, Arizona, ex-mine owner Jason Hazard meets with an unexpected cold reception. Vic Olsen – an old enemy of his – is now the new mine owner and hates Hazard with a vengeance. Added to his trouble the town seems cursed: other miners are suffering; cave-ins and payroll robberies and when a foreman goes missing, Hazard is quickly put in the frame for all the troubles. He'll need all the remaining friends he has as hell breaks loose in Stinking Springs. The author of more than seventy books, Brian Garfield is one of USA's most prolific writes of thrillers, westerns and other genre fiction. Raised in Arizona, Garfield found success at an early age, publishing his first novel when he was only eighteen. Which, at the time, made him one of the youngest writers of Western novels in print.A former ranch-hand, he is a student of Western and South-western history, an expert on guns, and a sports car enthusiast. After time in the Army, a few years touring with a jazz band, and a Master's Degree from the University of Arizona, he settled into writing full time.Garfield is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, and the only author to have held both offices. Nineteen of his novels have been made into films, including Death Wish (1972), The Last Hard Men (1976) and Hopscotch (1975), for which he wrote the screenplay.To date, his novels have sold over twenty million copies worldwide. He and his wife live in California.