Bret Sanders' Hawk

He'd been christened Webley Hammond Steele, but since the War Between the States he'd been known as Hawk, named for the relentless bird of prey, the killer with the midnight black wing, the lethal beak.He was a brutal man who knew how to kill without pity. He came out of prison, escaping the hangman's noose in return for helping the law get a renegade killer. Hate welded him into a savage hunter who always got his prey.This hunt led him on the trail of a man he'd sworn to kill for years-the sadist who'd once branded him with a hot iron, then tortured and killed the woman he loved.No lawman's badge could keep him from the revenge he sought-or from the bloody carnage that followed in his wake!

When the last blood was spilled in the murderous Carthage-Rault feud, Joe Carthage thought he was the last survivor of his family. But now, as the old man lay dying, he suddenly discovered that his two young nieces-kidnapped by the brutal Raults years ago-were still alive.So Carthage hired the savage gun of Web Steele-the killer they called Hawk-to hunt down his nieces and bring them back to the Carthage ranch. An inheritance of a couple million dollars would welcome them home.Hawk's search took him on a bloody trail of greed and vengeance-and led him right into the sadistic hands of his old enemy, the vicious Colonel Spate!