Double Cross

St. Louis, gateway to the west and springboard of dreams-for those who had them. Fate had shattered what Jubal Cade had hoped for, killing his new wife and thrusting a blind orphan boy on him. So he came to St. Louis as a realist, not a dreamer. Needing money to help young Andy Prescott and, more desperately, to finance his search for Mary's killer, Jubal Cade was a man with a gun for hire.Ben Agnew offered him money to take a package to Cheyenne. It was a long ride and death dogged his tracks, from outlaws and from the Sioux. But it was Jubal who dispensed death, spilling the blood of white and red men alike.A doctor whom destiny had decreed should kill instead of heal. Danger was his companion all the way to Cheyenne, and disappointment awaited him there. Sooner or later Jubal had to face the nightmare of a ghastly double cross. Terry Harknnett and Angus Ian Wells were British writers of genre fiction, who wrote under the name of Charles R. Pike (Jubal Cade). Raised in a Chicago foundling home, Jubal Cade went to England to learn medicine and returned to his native land with a wife and a dream.But a cruel world sets little store by dreams and as Jubal moved westwards he found himself on a killing trail. Violence stalked him every foot of the way and sudden death lurked close to every campsite. The harsh reality of flying fists and whining bullets shattered the dream and Jubal was forced to acknowledge the truth about himself.With sparkling white snow stained by the ghastly red of blood, the final tattered remnants of the dream were ripped away-although he had been taught to heal, his destiny was to kill.