Synopses & Reviews
Mason Hawke just wants to be left alone. Born with a musician's hands, Hawke has spent the past decade using his lightning–quick fingers to deal death instead of tunes, moving from one town to the next hoping to mute the voices of the dead that continually ring in his ears. But while playing piano in a two–bit saloon in Nebraska, Hawke witnesses a couple of roughnecks gun down a friend of his, and a few seconds later, the killer falls, by Hawke's hand. To honor his dead friend, Hawke travels to her home in New Orleans, but trouble seems to follow Mason Hawke like a hungry dog, and within days, he has put a bullet into a gun–toting thief.
But what should have been a simple act of justice becomes the beginning of a hunt. The man who Hawke shot was part of a business, part of a group, and that group is now determined to take revenge on Mason Hawke. That last tune in Nebraska began a trail that would take him on a winding road, to New Orleans, Missouri, and finally Kansas, before the vendetta that began in Nebraska can finally be put to rest.
Synopsis
SOMETIMES A MAN'S GOT TO STOP RUNNING . . .A haunted drifter with a dark history, Mason Hawke calls no town home. Now the past he's managed to stay one step ahead of has caught up with him in New Orleansin the enticing form of Rachel Brubaker, a beautiful woman who knew the man Hawke once was. But Rachel's running from her own demonsprofessionals with guns who want her dead for seeing too much killingand Hawke's the only savior she can turn to.
A man who just wants to disappear has stumbled into more trouble than he bargained for, because Rachel's hunters are a ruthless, relentless, and well-organized armycold-blooded businessmen whose business is murder. But if he can't help her escape, Hawke will have to fight, which is the last thing their pursuers want. Because when Mason Hawke goes to war, blood flows like a river.
About the Author
Robert Vaughan is a retired army officer and full-time novelist. His book Survival (under the pseudonym K.C. McKenna) won the Spur Award for best western novel (1994). He lives with his wife, Ruth, in Gulf Shores, Alabama.