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Mercy Wire: A frontier western adventure
120 miles, 4 days, 1 chance.
Bounty hunter Wade Mercer has always sworn by two things—deliver your prisoners breathing and trust the printed law. But when the wrecked wagon’s cargo is the only medicine that can save his fever-stricken nephew, the lawman shackles his captured train-robber, “Smilin’ Jack” Delaney, to his own saddle and gambles on a 120-mile shortcut across the New Mexico badlands.
Silver-baron Phineas Clegg has other plans. If Galena Bend dies, its rich claims default to him. Horses vanish, canteens turn to poison, and telegraph wires go dark as Clegg’s hired guns—and his forged federal warrants—hunt the unlikely pair.
Their only allies are a Confederate code-breaker hiding behind a telegraph key, an Irish nun who can boil hope out of dust, and a teenage horse-thief looking for one honest ride. Across dynamited canyons, flash-flood arroyos, and a town about to auction off its own future, Wade and Jack must decide whether redemption is worth breaking every rule they’ve ever lived by.
Mercy Wire is a razor-edged revisionist western of sabotage, sudden floods, and the fragile lifeline of one crackling telegraph key—where justice has to outrun both bullets and time.
Bounty hunter Wade Mercer has always sworn by two things—deliver your prisoners breathing and trust the printed law. But when the wrecked wagon’s cargo is the only medicine that can save his fever-stricken nephew, the lawman shackles his captured train-robber, “Smilin’ Jack” Delaney, to his own saddle and gambles on a 120-mile shortcut across the New Mexico badlands.
Silver-baron Phineas Clegg has other plans. If Galena Bend dies, its rich claims default to him. Horses vanish, canteens turn to poison, and telegraph wires go dark as Clegg’s hired guns—and his forged federal warrants—hunt the unlikely pair.
Their only allies are a Confederate code-breaker hiding behind a telegraph key, an Irish nun who can boil hope out of dust, and a teenage horse-thief looking for one honest ride. Across dynamited canyons, flash-flood arroyos, and a town about to auction off its own future, Wade and Jack must decide whether redemption is worth breaking every rule they’ve ever lived by.
Mercy Wire is a razor-edged revisionist western of sabotage, sudden floods, and the fragile lifeline of one crackling telegraph key—where justice has to outrun both bullets and time.
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 4, 2025
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