In 1885, Jack Shannon, a young border rancher, initiates a dangerous plan to secure statehood for the Arizona Territory. Aware of the territory's reputation for lawlessness, he plans to rid Arizona of its most notorious gunmen.
William Baer, the author of over forty books, has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright (Portugal), a Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, the T.S. Eliot Award, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. His books include Times Square and Other Stories; Advocatus Diaboli; The Dark Knight of Assisi; Psalter: A Sequence of Catholic Sonnets; The Gravedigger; Sportswriter; Classic American Films; Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets (translations from the Portuguese); the Jack Colt mystery series (New Jersey Noir); and the Deirdre mystery series.
