Mourning Is Red

There was only one fight that Jubal Cade was looking for, and that was with the man who murdered his wife. Meantime, he was a doctor; he didn't want to kill. But when he found Gill Last, he found more than a man with his guts shot all over the trail to Blazeville. He found a feud of mean treachery and brutal death. And he wasn't going to walk away from there until plenty more warm blood had flowed into the cold and merciless earth. 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.