Desert Death Song / Man Riding West (Louis L'Amour)

Desert Death Song Powder Basin - the broken rugged country at the edge of a dry forbidding desert - holds more hiding places than most men could find. Nat Bodine knows most of them; holed up in the Basin hills by a posse of over a hundred men he needs them more than ever before. Jim Morton knows that if anyone is going to escape this posse its Bodine just as he knows that Bodine is the kind of man who wouldnt commit the crime of which hes accused - and who if forced would seek his freedom in the savage desert sands. Man Riding West Jim Gary had always tried to avoid trouble. But after he is forced to kill a Mexican gunman in a cantina showdown trouble seems to seek him out. A shoot-out with the gunmans vengeful outlaw buddies sends Jim on the run with an unwanted reputation as a dangerous gunslinger. And when he hires on as a cowhand for a friend Jim risks being strung up as a rustler and murderer--unless he can use his wits as quickly as his guns.