It was a savage, snowbound Arizona mountain winter when Ryker's old enemy, banker Goldburgh, came to him and told him his daughter had gotten herself kidnapped by the murderous Brennan gang. Ryker wasn't about to help him, even for a 12,000 dollar reward. But the gunslinger soon had something against the Brennans when they broke his right arm. That's when Ryker got himself a scattergun - the kind you don't need to aim carefully to cut a man in half. Now the Brennans were going to pay. And Arizona was going to see a lot of blood in the snow. CHARLES C. GARRETT is the pseudonym for the writing team of Laurence James and Angus Wells GUNS ARE RYKER'S BUSINESS. SO IS KILLING...John Ryker was a gunsmith. One of the best at a time when speed and skill with a shooting iron were as vital to survival as food in your belly.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer Ryker had sold sets him on a vengeance trail of blood and conflict that would test his gun-skill to its farthest limits. And so the gunsmith became a killer – one whose professional mastery of the West's armory of death-dealing firepower made him the deadliest around …
