The Quick and the Dead: A Novel
by By LAmour, Louis
Category: Fiction , Westerns

When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers,  and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting  the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against  other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even  possess.Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger,  Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian’s true interest  Duncan’s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him?As they  push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat—the thieves  outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within. . . .