TY  - BOOK
N2  - Kirby-later Smoke- Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy U.S. marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of San Animas. There he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the outlaw leader Cole Dawson, whose six-gun has left a lot of good men dead. Young Smoke feels no such fear. He takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. It turns out Dawson is only a cog in a crooked plot hatched by someone hiding behind the law. For a young duputy marshal, going up against the powerful and corrupt is almost certainly a fool's mission, but doing nothing is not a choice. When Smoke strikes, he's in all the bloody way, and what follows will become the stuff of legend. Braving bullets, blood and treachery fo face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado territory, Smoke will earn a reputationfor justice and the rule of law in a wild, violent frontier.
N2  - Before he went off in search of his father, long before he become a legend, Kirby Jensen, later to be known as Smoke Jensen, was a young man trying to make a living with the gifts God gave him--courage, cunning, and lightning with a gun.
AB  - Kirby-later Smoke- Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy U.S. marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of San Animas. There he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the outlaw leader Cole Dawson, whose six-gun has left a lot of good men dead. Young Smoke feels no such fear. He takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. It turns out Dawson is only a cog in a crooked plot hatched by someone hiding behind the law. For a young duputy marshal, going up against the powerful and corrupt is almost certainly a fool's mission, but doing nothing is not a choice. When Smoke strikes, he's in all the bloody way, and what follows will become the stuff of legend. Braving bullets, blood and treachery fo face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado territory, Smoke will earn a reputationfor justice and the rule of law in a wild, violent frontier.
AB  - Before he went off in search of his father, long before he become a legend, Kirby Jensen, later to be known as Smoke Jensen, was a young man trying to make a living with the gifts God gave him--courage, cunning, and lightning with a gun.
T1  - This violent land /
AU  - Johnstone, William W.,
AU  - Johnstone, J. A.,
ET  - First Pinnacle mass market paperback [edition].
CN  - Johnstone
N1  - "A Smoke Jensen novel of the west"--Cover.
N1  - First published in hardcover by Kensington in 2015.
N1  - Includes an excerpt from Journey into violence.
ID  - 760489
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Gunfighters
KW  - Outlaws
KW  - Sheriffs
SN  - 9780786036448
SN  - 0786036443
TI  - This violent land /
ER  -