The Backstabbers

First rule of Johnstone country: Trust no one

No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. Especially when the passenger's a dead man, the payoff's a gold mine, and the last stop is death...

Second rule: Watch your back

Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town - in a thunder storm - and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot - and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. 

Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't refuse a pretty lady - or the lure of gold. But Red has a feeling they're playing with fire. Especially when the map leads them straight into crossfire of a ferocious range war, a 400-pound load of pure evil known as Papa Mace Rathmore - and his backwoods clan of sadistic, kill-crazy hillbillies...

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