Even when Clint Adams tries to mind his own business, death finds him. There will be no peace and quiet in South Dakota for The Gunsmith, only bullets and blood...
A poker game turns deadly when the man who runs the tiny town of Departure takes offense at a gambler winning fifty dollars off of him in a game. A game that happened to include The Gunsmith. Trying to simply find some time to himself, Adams instead ends up in a battle between two men. And before it is over, animals, both man and beast, will be out to murder an attractive woman...and The Gunsmith!
J.R. Roberts (Robert J. Randisi) is an American author who writes in the Detective and Western genres. He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories. Booklist magazine said he "may be the last of the pulp writers."
He co-founded and edited Mystery Scene magazine and co-founded the American Crime Writers League. He founded The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981, where he created the Shamus Award.