Eight Hours to Die

John Henry Sixkiller must protect a New Mexico townfrom its own sheriffin this powerful Western from ';a master storyteller' (Publishers Weekly). William W. Johnstone, the beloved, bestselling frontier chronicler, brings to life the story based on the historical lawman born and bred in Cherokee Nation: Sixkiller. In the wild, wild west there is no man more dangerouson either side of the law.Three men dead. And Sixkiller might be next... The territorial governor has sent three lawmen to clean up the mess that is Chico, New Mexicoand not one of those lawmen has made it out alive. A crooked sheriff has the terrified denizens of Chico under his boot heel, so the governor turns to John Henry Sixkiller, sending him undercover as a gunman for hire. So far, Sixkiller has bloodied his opponents in every battle he's fought in the Southwest. But this one could affect the entire country: A group of merciless land pirates have been hiding behind Chico's brutal sheriff. Their goal: to take the entire territory hostage and sell it lock, stock and barrel to Mexicogleefully slaughtering anyone who gets in the way...