title: The Reinvention Of Rudd Carter
author: Davis, R.L.
description: The Reinvention Of Rudd Carter
  A Western Action Adventure Novel
  South of the border, everyone is for sale. Everyone but Rudd Carter.
  Carter is a rarity: A martial arts expert and hired gun born to an aristocratic English family. He worked undercover for the British in China, helping put down the Boxer Rebellion.
  Now, in 1922, in the lawless Mexican desert, a conspiracy is brewing. Ben Mosier is a cigar-chomping American who runs hotels, casinos, bootlegging and brothels. He’s plenty rich, but he lusts for more, even if it means corrupting local authorities and seizing a foreign country.
  Maybe Rudd Carter has something to prove to his family — for banishing him, when he fell in love with his 16-year-old cousin and got her pregnant. He’s picked up a useful but unstable lieutenant, who enjoys watching people drown in their own blood. Now at Mosier’s hotel he meets stunning Kathryn. She just plays the violin — so cool and aloof, as if she’s not tainted, too.
  Carter is a genius at war for hire. Eleven years ago his Devil’s Squadron — 50 ruthless killers — struck the fateful blow in the Battle of Juarez, deciding the Mexican revolution. Now Mosier and his cronies hire Carter to raise a new cadre of fighters. Why? To provoke another Mexican uprising. But the last thing they have in mind is revolution of, by or for the people.
  Carter’s always chosen the right battle at the right time. In Kathryn, he’s finally found the woman he wants to spend his life with. Here’s Mosier, promising to make him rich. Just this one more job, and he can kiss killing goodbye forever. But something about this plan is beginning to smell. Something Carter can’t see and isn’t being told is making him queasy. Is it the truth behind Mosier’s harebrained scheme — or the fear that his own luck and cunning are about to run out?
  About The Author Of The Western Action Adventure Book, Rudd Carter
  Born in California, on the Mexican border, R.L. Davis grew up in an environment rich with stories and folklore about the early twentieth century along the California-Mexican border. He grew up reading novels about military conspiracy and action thrillers, which inform much of his work today. He left high school in his senior year to travel with a name band. For the next fifty years, he worked as a professional saxophone player (and reading as many western action thriller books on the road as he could) performing with Les Brown, Bob Hope, Lawrence Welk, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jack Jones Tony Bennett, John Gary, and Rosemary Clooney. He is currently completing two novels—one a historical conspiracy thriller, and the other an action adventure yarn.