The Border Empire
Publisher: Signet
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780451192097
First sentence: The grulla was gone.
Description: THEY KILLED THE GUNFIGHTER. BUT THEY DIDN'T KILL HIS SON. 

Nathan Stone, the man they called The Gunfighter, lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. The Sandlin gang kicked up that dust as they rode back laughing into Mexico, where the U.S. law couldn't touch them and local law didn't want to. 
Behind him Nathan Stone left his horse, his Winchester, his customer made Colts, and his name. The son who had grown up without him took them all. His name was Wes Stone. He used to be a lawman, but he took the star down from his chest when he picked up his father's guns. 
He knew the impossible odds of going against the outlaw army and its empire of evil. But he knew another things as well. He knew he was his father's son, and he was going to teach his father's killers just what that meant....