Rough Shod

A lone gunman. A fatal mistake. A hunt across the unforgiving desert.In the sun-scorched badlands, a man known only as Rip is left afoot when his horse takes a bad step. A chance ride on a freight wagon seems like a lifeline, but it plunges him into the heart of a bloody ambush. In the chaos, he escapes with his life, a stolen horse, and a saddlebag-but it’s the wrong one. Now, he’s carrying a fortune in bank bonds he never wanted, and the desert is crawling with men who will kill to get it back.A relentless manhunt begins across the blistering alkali flats and through shadowed canyons. Rip is pursued by three deadly forces: a ruthless gang of outlaws led by the brutal Slade, a dogged sheriff and his Comanche tracker seeking frontier justice, and a cunning bounty hunter, Flint McCrae, who is always one step behind.But the stolen bonds are a lie, a decoy in a deeper conspiracy of greed and murder orchestrated by a corrupt banker. Rip, the only loose end, becomes the target of every gun in the territory. Battling a venomous snakebite, debilitating thirst, and the ghosts of a war he can’t forget, Rip must outwit his hunters and unravel the truth before the desert, or a bullet, claims him for good.ROUGH SHOD is a gritty, high-octane wild western adventure in the vein of Elmore Leonard and Louis L’Amour, a taut story of survival, betrayal, and the deadly cost of a single mistake.