Young Jack Dancer is just in town for a little fun on a Saturday night, but Cash McCabe is on the prowl. Before the night is done Jack is fleeing for his life with a smoking six-gun in his hand.

Thinking he has killed a man during the fight he was forced into, the gangly farm boy of seventeen escapes into the dark and lonely Texas plain with the McCabe brothers, sons of a rich carpetbagger, in hot pursuit.

As Jack flees, the McCabes turn their rage toward his family. Humiliated at being bested by the youngster, they attack his brother and mother and leave them for dead. News of the attack travels quickly to his Uncle John, a legendary West Texas gunman, who finds Jack in Dodge City. Stricken with grief and the heavy burden of responsibility, Jack vows to hunt down the killers. Together, the Dancer men trudge a hostile, raw frontier in unyielding pursuit of the killers.

Will the cold-blooded villains escape Jack’s relentless gun?

F. M. “Pete” Peterson is highly regarded as a writer, and as an award-winning artist. He is the great-grandson of a Confederate veteran and a descendent of a Cherokee who trudged the Trail of Tears.

He is a devotee and student of frontier history and fiction, and a lover of Western art. Pete Peterson has lived and traveled extensively in our Western states. He now resides with his wife in Oklahoma, “Home of the Red Man.”

The Relentless Gun is Pete’s first book for AVALON.

Avalon Westerns by Pete Peterson:
A DARK TRAIL WINDING
RECKONING AT RAINDANCE
THE RELENTLESS GUN