The authorities warned Jim Jackson that if ever set foot in Texas again then he wouldn't get out alive. But Jim is back. Searching for information about old friends incarcerated in the cruel Texas penal system, with intentions to bust them out of wherever they are. When Jim foils a train robbery, he's suddenly a hero and a hunted man. The death toll rises as Jim attempts to outrun both the authorities and the friends of the train robbers he killed. Meanwhile, there's still a prison break to engineer. And there's also the matter of the beautiful and enigmatic Rosalie Robertson?

Derek Rutherford is based in Gloucester, UK. He has published five Black Horse Westerns and numerous short stories in the western, crime, science-fiction, and horror genres. When not writing he plays lead guitar in a rock'n'roll band, enjoys predator fishing and photography.