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It was a beautiful day. Tyrone Brewster walked out of the station, confident this was going to be an easy job. At five feet eight inches, average build, brown eyes, brown hair, brown suit, and brown derby hat, with no scars or distinguishing marks, he looked just like any other drummer riding the train. Only he was no drummer. He was a bringer of death, an assassin, and Hammershield had met his price.

Just when Clay Brentwood thought things were about to quiet down, new trouble comes his way in the form of Austin, Texas, Judge Horatio B. Tyson. The judge sends Bill McDaniel, head of the Texas Rangers, on a manhunt with two murder warrants; both for Clay Brentwood.

The Peña gang ravage the Southwest, plundering and killing with impunity. Until, that is, they kill Ben Morrison’s brother for a fortune in rubies. Ben considers himself a used-up former lawman, but desperate for revenge, he calls on ex-manhunt Duel Winston for help. Duel, though, has settled into a peaceful life of ranching and is reluctant to risk his newfound happiness. Until, that is, the ghosts of his past come a-haunting, and he takes to the trail again.

Michael Brennan is back and joined by John Dearlove, a career British MI6 operative. China has fired a new missile toward an American spy satellite in high earth orbit. A few days later, North Korea fires an intercontinental ballistic missile nearly 400 kilometers off the coast of Hawaii. The President wants answers and orders the CIA to investigate. Michael Brennan and John Dearlove arrive in China. What they soon uncover is a deadly organization once thought to have perished in 1912. The Assassination Corps has plans to cripple China's Communist party, including a daring attack on North Korea's reclusive leader.

Ex-range detective Jim Duran has had enough of progress and the increasingly tamed West. But when he signs on with the Peacemaker Society for the final mission of his career, he gets more than he bargained for - a fiery Crow Indian bent on avenging a murder, a bone-freezing journey over a desolate white desert of treacherous ice and snow, and an insane dictator who threatens to plunge the United States into another Civil War.

In the style of Poe and Seuss, these five vivid yet dark and twisted fables will send shivers down your spine. "Gwendolyn Witch" has a magic crystal that loses its clarity. "The Tooth Wraith" seeps into your bedroom window at night searching for cavities. "The Ghost of the Canyon" is the unsettled spirit of a girl from long ago. "The Playmate" is an unseen child, heard yet never found. In "Gnomes G'Lee", gruesome creatures dead set on defending their garden.

The immortals have suffered a near total annihilation throughout the world; from Miami to Paris, Cairo and Sri Lanka; throughout time and history; from ancient Biblical times, towards the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, and Modern-Day cosmopolitan cities. The immortals were dying. A gifted girl loses her parents in close succession and fights with God in between visits from the Devil. As a woman, she leaves home and discovers Vaudeville in Paris, and "la passion de la vanite".

Arriving in Lancerville, John Laramie hoped to escape his old life as a man-hunter and settle down. But there he finds he’s torn between the demons of his past and hope for a brighter future when a young woman seeks his help in getting rid of a vicious outlaw. Then the Cross Gang attacks him and the young woman’s life is put in danger. But will it cost Laramie more to win than to lose in a deadly showdown?