Faith and a Fast Gun. Joshua Dillard Western, #8

Riding into trouble is a habit with ex-Pinkerton detective Joshua Dillard. His visit to his late wife's  resting place in a Texas mission graveyard proves no exception. Guns blaze and chips fly off  headstones as he intervenes to save a girl called Faith from the clutches of ruthless cattle baron Lyte Grumman and his gunhawks. Grumman has lost a thousand head of longhorns in what he reckons was a rigged poker game.
He's intent on recouping the loss, whatever it takes.  Buying in on Faith's behalf, Joshua soon finds his skills with a Colt Peacemaker to no avail against superior numbers and a deadly tangle of unexpected deception!BONUS FEATURE: "No Trail to Fortune". Joshua Dillard's infectious dilemma "Well-written with vividly drawn characters and hardboiled action, this has a standard beginning for a Western novel.
But old pro Chap O'Keefe is just luring the reader in before springing some great twists in the plot. Those twists don't come fast and furious. The sense that something isn't quite right builds at a deliberate but very effective pace, picking up steam as the storyline moves from Texas to Montana, and winds up in a stunning climax that's more like something out of Greek tragedy than a traditional Western.
This is a fine novel, with O'Keefe working solidly in the tradition of noirish Western authors such as Lewis B. Patten, H. A. De Rosso, and Dean Owen. Joshua Dillard is a very appealing, tough but flawed hero. If you're a Western fan and haven't tried a Chap O'Keefe novel yet, you really should." - James Reasoner, New York Times bestselling author  "I'm looking forward to reading Faith and a Fast Gun.
Chap always delivers." - David Cranmer, writer and founder of Beat to a Pulp