HorseSense

Hetaught the boy how to hunt men. Then he taught him when to stop.

EldridgeSample is a man who knows the price of survival. Riding across thebaking hardpan of the high plains, he stops for water at a strugglinghomestead and meets a family of brothers on a desperate mission:driving thirty head of wild mustangs to Fort Campbell to save theirfarm.

Samplewishes them luck and rides on, but luck is in short supply in theterritory.

Whenthe ruthlessness of the frontier strikes—leaving the boys beaten,bloodied, and their herd stolen by the notorious horse thief SilasKreeger—Sample turns his horse around. He isn't a marshal anymore,but he can’t walk away from a debt that needs collecting.

Teamingup with Nate, the eldest brother who is burning with a rage thatcould get him killed, Sample leads a two-man manhunt into the jaggedbreaks. It’s a brutal masterclass in violence as the drifterteaches the farm boy the hardest lesson of the West: to catch a wolf,you have to become a monster.

Butas they close in on Kreeger’s camp, orchestrating a stampede toreclaim what was stolen, Sample must ensure that in learning to kill,the boy doesn't lose his soul.

"Beinga monster gets you through the fight," Sample said. "Stoppingmakes you a man."

Raw,poignant, and packed with grit, Horse Sense is a coming-of-agethriller wrapped in the smoke of a gunfight. Perfect for fans of TheCowboys, the mentorship of Shane, and the sharp-edged realism ofElmore Leonard.

Keywords:Western Adventure, Coming of Age, Vigilante Justice, Horse Thieves,US Cavalry, Historical Fiction, Gunfighter, Survival Story, ElmoreLeonard Style, Revenge.