New Release -- THE LAST RIDE OF SHADOW BRIGGS by Sam Fadala

Justice must be served when eighteen-year-old Billy Point is murdered on the Arizona-Mexico border. But the prominent family of the young man is incensed that the lawman chosen to go after the killers is a retired Arizona Ranger—John Shadow Briggs.

Shadow Briggs has never been one to shirk his duty—and this time is no different. The best of the best, he follows the cold trail of the murderers, muddied by the attempts of the young man’s hot-headed father to take the law into his own hands.

The re-telling of this last assignment, the steady pursuit, and the final outcome is the precious gift Shadow Briggs bequeaths an aspiring young writer. This is the story of how tangled justice was sorted by one man. Duty lies heavy on a man’s shoulders, and some things can never be forgotten. Such was THE LAST RIDE OF SHADOW BRIGGS…

EXCERPT

     “There ain’t no call for this!”

     “Shet up, Luke!”

     “Por que?” Diego asked. “What for?” Archibald delivered another kick, this one landing in the heavy man’s stomach, making him wretch. “We only brought a little saint to del Bac,” he groaned in Spanish.

     “Fetch them horses.” The boys did. “Mount up,” he ordered Diez. Diego stood by his brother, reaching out to the cuts and bruises, pulling helplessly at cactus needles protruding from his face. Archibald landed his third kick, directed between the heavy man’s thighs and down he went. Point created two loops on the rope now, firing the double-noose into the air over an outstretched oak limb ten feet from the ground. The vaqueros were forced into their saddles, a horse on either side of the limb, both men mounted. Archibald slipped a noose over each head. “Drawed a bead on a helpless boy, did ya?”

     “Mi culpa!” Diego confessed. “I’m guilty. It was me.”

     “Too late, amigo,” Archibald laughed. “Too late.”...