Undercover Law by Chuck Mason, a pseudonym for British author Donald S. Rowland (
ISFDB,
SFE) is his vintage standalone historical western action adventure novel, this one starring a federal lawman with a mission to take down a gang of outlaws terrorizing the locals, by posing as an ordinary rancher looking to buy land in a plan that promptly goes sideways, as these things do, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Pioneering imprint.
This was originally published in 1968 by Robert Hale.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Whatever it takes…
Corb Killey, a federal lawman, has been tasked with bringing down a gang of outlaws who’ve been terrorising the locals of Vogel County.
They’ve done everything from coach hold-ups through to cattle rustling, and the town’s reached breaking point.
Posing as a rancher looking to buy a spread, Corb Killey knows it is going to be a tough job despite his twenty years of experience riding for the law.
He tries to slip into Vogel County unnoticed, and immediately finds trouble when his coach is gunned down.
From that moment onwards he’s a marked man and Corb becomes victim to more attempts at violence than he would have wished upon his worst enemy.
He wants to settle accounts with Brice Norden and the outlaw's gang, but nothing seems to work out the way he had planned.
It soon becomes clear that there are dangerous players in the game besides the outlaws.
Whilst a few townsmen are ready to back Corb to the hilt, a prominent saloon man and deputy sheriff are up to their necks in illegal dealings with the gang.
Corb uses his gun time and again, pitting his wits against the schemers, and it’s not long before things reach an epic conclusion in a rip-roaring trade of lead.
Fast and furious, a riot of evil and greed, Undercover Law is a thrilling classic western adventure full of action and suspense.