DEATH BY LEAD: Forty-Fourth in a Series of Jess Williams Westerns (A Jess Williams Western Book 44)

Jess finds himself in Destin, Texas, shooting it out with three outlaws who are hell-bent to stop him from taking down Harvey Millican, a man who raped and murdered a young girl. When the smoke clears and Millican is dead, an old man by the name of Grant Sackett talks Jess into letting him travel with him to Luden, Texas, where he can turn in Millican’s body for the bounty on his head.

While there, he receives an urgent request from United States Marshal Frank Reedy telling him to make it to the town of Washburn, Texas, where John Bodine is waiting for him. Washburn is the town where a ruthless gang of robbers and murderers, led by Wilfred Stanley, murdered a young woman and her two young daughters during a bank robbery.

When Reedy meets with Jess and Bodine in Washburn, the three of them team up together to hunt down Stanley and his gang. The hunt takes a deadly turn when they are ambushed and Bodine and Reedy are seriously wounded. Stanley and his remaining thugs get away when Jess has to escort Reedy and Bodine to the closest town to get to a doctor.

He leaves Reedy and Bodine in Trumbel and sets out by himself to hunt down the last three outlaws. They make his job difficult by splitting up and heading in three different directions, but Jess in not one to give up once he sets his mind to something. The hunt turns deadly and bloody, and Jess finds himself hoping that Reedy and Bodine get well enough to help him finish the job.