Pray for Death

Will Tanner carries a badge, not a hired gun's price. He believes in the law and works as a U.S. Deputy Marshal out of Fort Smith. But when a friend is in real danger, he knows the one kind of help that will make a difference, and it comes from the barrel of a revolver.

In the Choctaw Nation, a petty cattle thief named Tiny McCoy has found a more profitable line of work. He and his partner are distilling whiskey along Muddy Boggy Creek, and their illegal still has grown into something worse: a hideout where outlaws, cutthroats, and killers gather to rest and plan their next crimes.

Local lawman Jim Little Eagle is outnumbered and under constant fire, so he sends a telegram to Fort Smith begging for backup. The answer is Tanner, and Little Eagle understands what that means. Blood is going to be spilled on the creek, and the men who have turned it into a criminal stronghold will have reason to pray before it ends. Pray for Death is a Western from William W. Johnstone.