On the Track of Vengeance

By: Gary L. Pullman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The runaway action never stops in On the Track of Vengeance, the fourth book in An Adventure of the Old West series.

When outlaw gangs sabotage railroads, resulting in the deaths of innocent passengers and crew members, the president of the United States becomes directly involved, appointing Bane Messenger a U.S. marshal answerable to him alone.

Teamed with trustworthy deputies, Bane takes on the desperate men, who care only for vengeance and are willing to do anything to strike back at the railroads and the government they blame for their misfortunes.

But the stakes soar when Bane learns that the outlaws plan to sabotage a train carrying his wife and father. With their lives hanging in the balance and no way to warn them, Bane races to the scene. Can he stop the outlaws in time or will Pamela and Bradford become the latest victims of the cruel men who care for nothing but vengeance?

Q: What role does the Transcontinental Railroad play in the novel?

A: As President Chester A. Arthur—or my version of him, as a character in On the Track of Vengeance—tells Bane, the Transcontinental Railroad facilitated commerce, communication, transportation, and travel. It brought the country together geographically and otherwise. At the same time, though, some of the men who were in charge of building the railroad also created strife and grief for farmers, railroad crews, and the families of men killed during the railroad’s construction. These problems lead some of their families to sabotage and kill in misguided attempts to avenge their late loved ones. It’s this problem that Bane is called upon to remedy.

O: Do any of the other characters from previous novels in the series appear in this book?

A: A good many do, and, concerning several of them, there are some surprises. There are also new characters, of course, and some of them, too, present surprises. As the series unfolds, we get to know the main characters better and better, but they’re still capable of amazing us. They also connect and unify the other books in my series, An Adventure of the Old West, providing coherence and continuity.