Ralph Compton Blood of the Hunters

Synopsis

In this compelling new installment of bestseller Ralph Compton’s The Gunfighter series, a man driven bythe destruction of his family seeks to protect a woman and her children from a band of desperados.John Stockbridge was once a peaceful man of medicine. Now, he’s better known as Dr. Vengeance, a man who is asfast with a shotgun as any other gunfighter is with a six-gun. The murders of his wife and child left him with an achinghole where his soul once was. His only solace comes from wandering the West.Along the way, he encounters a woman and her two children searching for their missing fur-trapper husband/father in the Rockies. In the process, they run afoul of some foul former Confederates who have amassed money andlocal power by robbing those traveling west through a mountain pass. While searching for the missing trapper—andaided by a Mexican mountain man and an independent woman who works at the local hotel—Stockbridge must takedown the vicious highwaymen one by one.