The Boss He Shot

Arizona Territory, 1889. Lucca Falco runs Falco Freight out of Tucson, which is what the family calls it, and everything from the Gila to the border is what it actually is. He is thirty-six, he has one relative left alive, and he has been waiting eleven years for the rifleman who killed his father to make a mistake. Cutter Hanley walks into the Tucson warehouse and gives his real name. He isn't hiding. He wants a trade: the name of the man who paid him, in exchange for the sister he left behind in a Falco mining camp. Coyote Hanley runs the camp store at Ray, keeps a Colt behind the counter, and has spent eleven years telling people her brother is dead. Lucca takes the trade. Then he puts her under his own roof. The man who paid Cutter Hanley is Lucca's uncle Emilio, who keeps the family's eastern cattle paper and a forged-bill operation behind it. To get him, Lucca and Coyote will have to forge a title in Santa Fe, ride the San Pedro, and shoot the last Falco who shares his blood.