Slade

by Barry Cord

Arriving in the town of Badwater to claim a ranch owned by his now-deceased former business partner--who had once tried to kill him--Slade encounters resistance from hired gunmen and a woman claiming to be the deceased owner's daughter-in-law

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Barry Cord was the primary personal pseudonym of prolific American Western and sci-fi author Peter B. Germano, who used it to publish dozens of standalone novels and pulp stories starting in the 1940s.