Private Detective Tony Boudreaux investigates the alleged accident of his friend's father and gets caught up in a plot to defraud the dead man's family of millions of dollars.
In order to secure an eight-million-dollar insurance claim for Frances Holderman, all Tony Boudreaux had to do was prove to Universal Life Insurance Company that his client was not responsible for the death of her husband, a local school district superintendent. What should have been a simple matter of confirming her alibi exploded in his face, leading Tony into a maze of suspects, each of which had his own reasons for murdering the superintendent; a tangle of faculty indiscretions, and the hidden world of high school drugs. To further complicate the investigation, Tony's nephew, Stewart Thibodeaux, breezed into Austin with lofty dreams of becoming a drug lord, only to wind up on the wrong end of an executioner's bullet.
Newly licensed PI Tony Boudreaux pulls off I-10 to visit his old friend Detective Ben Howard in Galveston. Within hours he is accused of shooting his friend and murdering a cop he had once threatened. In his efforts to clear himself, he stumbles into the middle of a diamond smuggling caper on the Galveston docks.
Jed Walker clung to one goal: kill the five owlhoots who had shot him and murdered his brother. But later after finding out information about one of them, has to make a hard decision.
When Josh Barkley ties up his horse in front of the sheriff's office in Junction Flats, he gets more than he bargained for. He soon becomes entangled with a local rancher's headstrong daughter, who tells him that not only is she going to marry him, but she will help him carry out his sheriff's duties. Unfortunately, this includes accidentally knocking him unconcious while he is fighting with a hold-up man. And as if this weren't enough trouble, Josh learns he has landed smack dab in the middle of a town infiltrated by a Union spy ring trying to steal sixty-thousand dollars of Arizona gold headed for Galveston and the Confederate Navy.
Ndy wouldn't have worried. But when he discovered seven Comancheros following them with the intention of kidnapping the women and children, their predicament suddenly seemed insurmountable.
When Jefferson Davis Travis hires on at the Diamond B in the high desert of Northwest Arizona, he has no way of knowing he had ridden into the middle of a sinister plot of murder and theft cooked up.
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