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Terror of the mountain man

by William W. Johnstone

Smoke Jensen has come to Corpus Christi, Texas to take delivery of five hundred horses he purchased from an old friend. That's when a Mexican revolutionary, Colonel Taurino Bustamante Keno, brazenly crashes the border, slaughters twenty-two innocent U.S. citizens in cold blood and steals a thousand head of cattle - along with two hundred of Smoke's horses. Going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, Smoke and his friends cross the border in hot pursuit of Keno. The Mexican Federales want to stop Smoke and the others, but as soon as the banditos take something near and dear to a Federale commander, the Mexicans decide that Smoke's company might come in handy after all. They'll fight a fierce and secret little war of vengeance for the dearth of innocents the only way the Mountain Man knows how: relentless and unforgiving to the bitter, bloody end. Because no man steals from Smoke Jensen and lives to enjoy the ill-gotten goods. Not ever.

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