The Lawbringers 4: High Storm

While the blizzard raged outside, the cabin trembled, its beams creaking in the night. Thrown together by the storm and forced into each other's company, seven men and a girl strained against the intimate confinement, their nerves rubbed raw. There were the saddlebags full of gold, hidden somewhere on the premises. There was the feud between the rancher and the homesteader, ready to break out anew at any moment. There was the matter of the buffalo gun, which had already killed a deputy and could be brought out to kill again. And, above all, there was the half-breed girl, fair game for men who believed in taking what they wanted, at the point of a gun, if necessary. Two, three days? No one knew how long the storm would last. And nobody knew how long human nerves could stand the strain. All that was certain was that trouble would come-and someone would die! 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. Although Brian Garfield is better known for novels such as DEATH WISH, he wrote many Westerns. The Lawbringers series brings together his original stand alone novels written under different pseudonyms and explores the Old West from the eyes of the lawmen - these were the Lawbringers.