Eric Red

Joe Noose knows what fear looks like. He sees it in the eyes of his new friends - a dozen trail-hardened cattle men who don't scare easily. They're afraid that someone on this drive - one of their own team - is a serial killer....

In all his days as a bounty hunter, Joe Noose never met an outlaw like Bonny Kate Valence. The notorious female gunslinger has the kind of beauty that drives men wild - and a criminal record longer than the Snake River. She also has a date with the gallows....

A new kind of evil has come to the Old West. A killer as cold and hard as the Wyoming winter. He wanders from town to town. Slaughters entire families along the way. With grotesque glee, he brands the letter Q in his victims' flesh. Joe Noose knows the killer's identity....

In the cutthroat world of bounty hunters, Joe Noose is as honest as they come. Which isn't saying much. Just look at his less-than-honest colleagues. They framed Joe for a murder they committed. They made sure Joe's face wound up on a wanted poster. Now they're gonna hunt Joe down....