Trapper Mark Ordell saves Clint Adams's hide from a man-killing bear—and earns an eight-hundred-dollar reward for shooting the beast. To even the score, Clint helps Ordell dispatch three men trying to rob him of his trophy. But when Clint realizes that Ordell killed his own nephew in the shoot-out, he starts looking at his new friend sideways. And he starts watching his back when he hears that Ordell's been putting together very special hunting trips—where the prey is of the two-legged variety...
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.