When a driver is killed, a young man takes the reinsThe stagecoach rumbles toward Yuma when Tom Quinn hears the war whoop. A dozen Apaches strike, hungry for blood. Their first volley finds the driver, forcing Quinn to drive with one hand and shoot with the other. By the time the attack eases up, he is down to his last bullet. As the Apache pull back, the horses bolt, and the wagon flips on its side. Tom is trying to get it upright when two more riders approach.Escorted by Sheriff Mike Hancock, the accused murderer is on his way to Yuma prison--and now, he's Quinn's problem. Yuma may only be one hundred miles away, but night falls faster with a killer at your back.
Paul Joseph Lederer wrote more than 250 novels, many of them Westerns. He was born in Ocean Beach, CA, attended San Diego State University, served in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War, and lived in La Mesa, CA, until he passed away in 2016.
This is a good little Western that tells a story of a man doing what a man got to do. The main character, Tom Quinn, is just a rancher roped into help an assortment of people on a stagecoach journey across the Arizona desert. Although some of the characters are not fleshed out as well as other it is a good story.
Not usually a reader of western fiction, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Quinn, the main character, meets every challenge, even though he would rather go home to retirement.