White Apache

John Ryker was just about the best all-round gunfighter in the West. Rattler-fast on the draw, he was also an ace gunsmith. His gun- skill made him the most lethal one-man slaughter force in a violent land.So when Ryker got involved with a Gatling gun - one of the first machine-guns that were going to change the nature of warfare out of all recognition - it was a fair be that a lot of lead was going to fly. And a lot of Ryker's enemies were going to get dosed with death. In fact, it was more than a fair bet. It was a surefire certainty . . .. CHARLES C. GARRETT is the pseudonym for the writing team of Laurence James and Angus Wells GUNS ARE RYKER'S BUSINESS. SO IS KILLING...John Ryker was a gunsmith. One of the best at a time when speed and skill with a shooting iron were as vital to survival as food in your belly.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer Ryker had sold sets him on a vengeance trail of blood and conflict that would test his gun-skill to its farthest limits. And so the gunsmith became a killer – one whose professional mastery of the West's armory of death-dealing firepower made him the deadliest around …