The Widowmaker (A Jared Hawk Western)

Women spell trouble ... Kidnap spells death!The Willard brothers didn't know what they were letting themselves in for when theytook Ben King's wife off the train. She was beautiful and her husband was rich …Rich enough to hire Jared Hawk to bring his wife back and kill the men who took her.Hawk didn't like King's methods, but the big man's money spoke loud enough to persuade him, so he took the job. It didn't look too difficult …Not until he got tangled up in a spider's web of lethal intrigue.But Hawk had a way of solving problems … with a .45 caliber lead slug! The name of William S (Stuart) Brady was used by writers Angus Wells and John Harvey for the series of Westerns featuring gunfighter Jared Hawk. The series (HAWK) ran from 1979 to 1983 with 15 books. The PEACEMAKER series featured ex-Civil War veteran John T. McLain, widowed and alone he seeks a new life in the aftermath of war that has torn his country apart. Jared Hawk was a gunfighter. His talent for killing was up for hire - if the price was right. Hawk had a simple code: kill first and ask questions later. Whenever Hawk took money and given his word he wasn't the kind of man who went back on a promise. From the author of the PEACEMAKER series.