When it came to killing, nobody dealt out death like John Ryker. Onetime gunsmith, now turned deadly bounty hunter, his message was lethal - and he knew it. When Wes Gantry beat up Ryker's woman, he made a big mistake. Ryker wanted blood and he'd stop at nothing to gun Gantry into the ground. And besides, his Colt forty-five Peacemaker – the bloodiest tool in the West – needed to see some action... CHARLES C. GARRETT is the pseudonym for the writing team of Laurence James and Angus Wells GUNS ARE RYKER'S BUSINESS. SO IS KILLING...John Ryker was a gunsmith. One of the best at a time when speed and skill with a shooting iron were as vital to survival as food in your belly.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer Ryker had sold sets him on a vengeance trail of blood and conflict that would test his gun-skill to its farthest limits. And so the gunsmith became a killer – one whose professional mastery of the West's armory of death-dealing firepower made him the deadliest around …
