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Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He’s lucky to be alive.

In 1999 Phoenix, it’s the sweet season. Christmas and the new millennium are only weeks away.

He’s a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as “the columnist.” He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn’t afraid to stir up trouble, and keeps his life, including h

Having recently lost his job as a history professor, David Mapstone returns to his boyhood home of Phoenix, Arizona, to find the city dramatically changed.

When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, historian-turned-deputy-sheriff David Mapstone can’t keep a cool, academic distance.

Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office.

When a former student turns up in David Mapstone’s office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a 40-year

Tough-as-rawhide ranger Sam Burrack pursues a posse of violent jailbreakers. As he follows the bloody trail, Sam comes face-to-face with an unpleasant foe: the legendary Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.

Former hired gun Larry Shaw tries to help a prostitute determine the father of her unborn child. Of the three candidates, one stands out--the notorious William H. Bonney.

Cray Dawson is on his way home, having just made a name for himself in a gang-busting shootout.

As Julie Wilder races to greet her father, she sees his ashen face and fixed stare too late to escape the hooded nightriders who suddenly surround her.

Reeling from the death of his wife Rosa, Fast Larry Shaw turns to whiskey to drown out the sorrow. But even with a drink in one hand, he's still the fastest shot around.

Blake Carly is wanted for the murder of an elderly town sheriff.

When Texas Bob Krey gets a hot hand in cards, his good luck sparks a gunfight. Once the smoke clears, two men are dead, including the brother of Judge Henry Bass.

Dick Lowry anc his gang of crooks are robbing banks and stages like it's a God-given right--and that chaps Texas Ranger Sam Burrack something fierce.