Joe Noose Western

Joe Noose hunts down the first known serial killer on the American frontier-in this trailblazing thriller from acclaimed author Eric Red . . . SCARRED FOR LIFE A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims' flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer's identity. He recognizes the killer's brand. He bears the same scar from his childhood-and he's determined to stop this madman once and for all. Two U.S. marshals have agreed to help Joe. But they've never hunted a killer like this before. A sadist who kills for pleasure-and scars you for life . . . Praise for the westerns of Eric Red "Keeps the reader turning pages . . . brilliant. Hanging Fire is indeed a classic Western." -True WestMagazine "This teeth-grinding, bare-knuckling, swash-buckling adventure keeps readers turning pages. A terrific read. Allow plenty of time to read this. It's hard to put down." -Roundup Magazine on Hanging Fire "Exceptionally fast-paced and blood-spattered. Full of action, overflowing with defiant characters and deadly gunplay."-Lansing State Journal on Noose

Joe Noose follows a trail of blood through the valley of death-in this bold Western series from Eric Red, acclaimed author of The Guns of Santa Sangre and The Wolves of El Diablo. HUNT FOR THE CATTLE DRIVE KILLER Joe Noose knows what fear looks like. He sees it in the eyes of his new friends-a dozen trail-hardened cattle men who don't scare easily. It's not the 500-mile trek across treacherous Montana territory that's got them spooked. It's not the 3,000 heads of cattle they've got to wrangle either. They're afraid that someone on this drive-one of their own team-is a serial killer. Five wranglers are already dead. Every man is a suspect. And the woman rancher in charge is paying Joe Noose to root out the evil on this cursed cattle drive-by riding alongside the killer . . . Praise for Eric Red's The Guns of Santa Sangre and The Wolves of El Diablo "Blood-soaked weird west story. . . . Red places a premium on action. Readers will enjoy." -Publishers Weekly "Readers will rediscover an Old West genre." -True West "In the Old West, there are bad guys and even badder guys. But Eric Red's are the biggest baddest of all." -Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season "Bloody fights, desert vistas [and] a touch of romance make this a fast-paced adventure." -Library Journal