Fans of Lonesome Dove, Appaloosa, and the film Django Unchained will feel right at home in this fast-paced Western adventure that begins with action and barely lets up until its heart-stopping conclusion.

Young Deputy Marshal Paul Zachary should not have accepted that badge.

And he certainly should not have shot down a ruthless gunfighter in front of a crowd of onlookers at Belleville's busiest saloon.

Now that the smell of gunpowder has faded and the blood has been scrubbed off the floor, Zachary is something he never wanted to be - a hero.

The newspapers have written him up, and suddenly the 27-year-old lawman has more trouble on his hands than any man should.

Paul Zachary is not a big man.
But Dixon County is about to learn he is a dangerous one.

He learned to fight and fight hard as the youngest in a tough line of men who have never missed a war. Zachary himself survived three long, brutal years riding with a ragtag Rebel cavalry troop charged with raiding Northern towns during the Civil War.

Unfortunately for Zachary, his sudden fame proves a threat to a cruel and powerful cattle baron named McConnell, who has been growing his empire by leaps and bounds.

McConnell has bribed or buried every man who has ever stood up to him.

And he soon sets his sights on Paul Zachary, now known throughout the region as "Little Man."

McConnell cannot allow some young lawman to give people hope.

So he puts into motion a particularly cruel and devious plan, forcing Zachary to come after him in a godforsaken stretch of country known by locals as Devil's County (listed on the maps as Dixon County).

This is McConnell's world.

He owns most of the land
and all of the law.

Now the young lawman, Paul "Little Man" Zachary, will attempt what even the Army could not pull off.

Ride into Devil's County and clean out the lair of nearly one hundred murderers and thieves who answer only to McConnell.

In Dixon County, the smallest man may be the most dangerous.

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• Literature & FictionGenre FictionWesternsFrontier & Pioneer
• Literature & FictionClassicsClassic

• Publication Date: December 29, 2013
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• Print Length: 221 Pages
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