The Lawman Books

While investigating the mysterious death of a fellow marshal near Serenity, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade discovers that he is not welcome in this corrupt town, especially when he digs up a world of trouble by demanding that the corpse be exhumed. Original.

The black sheep in his family, gambler Jack Slade must return home to Lawton, Oklahoma, when his brother Jim, a successful rancher, dies under mysterious circumstances and finds himself drawn to Jim's fianceÉ while walking a fine line between justice and revenge when he discovers the truth. Original.

Gambler Jack Slade must return home to Lawton, Oklahoma, when his brother Jim dies under mysterious circumstances and finds himself drawn to Jim's fiancée while walking a fine line between justice and revenge when he discovers the truth. Original.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Jack Slade must stop cross-country carnage. The homestead killers have been cutting a bloody swath across Oklahoma Territory, leaving behind a trail of corpses, slaughtering whole families on isolated farms and stealing their livestock. Slade follows the trail of bloodshed to the town of Paradise, where he aims to stop the butchers- before Paradise becomes a hell on earth.

As Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade watches the day's condemned men march to the ropes, a shootout takes the life of the hanging judge. A note from the judge's pocket, along with a single matchbox, is all Slade has to track the gunman. As he follows these slim leads, Slade hears ominous tales about the Son of Dixie-and a group of hooded killers he thought long gone. To release their deadly grip on the area, Slade's going to need a sure hand...and a ready gun.

Deputy U.S. Marshall Jack Slade's on the trail of kith and kin killers. Slade can't help but remember his own murdered twin brother, while trying to keep one outlaw from busting his equally notorious twin out of prison. But with a Colt on his hip, Slade's dead set on making this one hell of a family reunion...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade does his preaching with bullets. The Prophet claims to be punishing sinners on behalf of the Lord- sending his "Avenging Angels" out to slaughter anyone who doesn't see the light. But it's Slade who's going to deliver the final judgement to the Prophet and his zealots.

U.S. Marshal Jack Slade puts his honeymoon on hold when a series of slasher murders makes the Wild West a little wilder.

A QUEST FOR VENGEANCE It was the happiest day of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade’s life—until a gang of roughnecks broke it up and shot his bride. Now in a coma, Slade’s bride-to-be faces a slim chance for a full recovery. With his heart broken and filled with vengeance, the Lawman sets out to pursue the gang that broke up his Oklahoma wedding and raided the Cherokee reservation. Teaming up with Little Wolf, Slade follows the gang south toward Mexico, passing through the perilous areas of Texas. And as Slade attempts to exact justice for his fiancée, The Lawman will be tempted to break any law that stands in the way…

A MOONSHINE TRAIL When his fellow U.S. Marshal Bill Tanner is found dead, Jack Slade picks up his trail, hot on a gang of moonshiners. A reformed drinker and gambler himself, Deputy U.S. Marshal Slade vows to uncover the truth behind Tanner’s death and pull the plug on the bootleggers—liquor and all! But Slade’s pursuit of justice comes with a heavy price: His longtime love, Faith Connover, has a quest of her own. While Slade is off hunting illegal moonshine, Faith makes arrangements to leave Oklahoma territory and head east. But all bets are off when Faith discovers something neither she nor Slade saw coming...

JAILBREAK ON THE TRAIL U.S. Marshal Jack Slade is tasked with escorting four prisoners to Leavenworth, Kansas. It’s a 250-mile, ten-day journey across a hot, barren landscape with only a green deputy to help him keep the outlaws in line—and the brooding thoughts of his troubled relationship with Faith Connover to otherwise occupy his mind. When some kin of prisoner Fergus Mayfield ambush the marshals and free the convicts, they make one mistake—leaving Slade alive. Badly wounded, horseless, and unarmed, Slade will stop at nothing to survive the dangers of the desert and pursue the escaped outlaws to the ends of the earth…