The Bravos — Brian Garfield

“If the law's only wanted when it's convenient, then you can find yourself a marshal who thinks that way.” Jeremy Six took his badge off, mounted his horse, and rode away from Spanish Flat.
But habit lingers and a trained trigger finger gets itchy. So when Jeremy fell in with an odd pair -- a greenhorn newspaperman and bespectacled ex-con -- and the three were ambushed on the road to Rifle Gap, it proved beyond his ability to keep out of the action.
And action there was in plenty as an intricate plot unfolded for control of the lush Concho Valley that also involved extracting a six-gun vengeance for the dark doings of a desperado past.

The author of more than seventy books, Brian Garfield is one of USA's most prolific writes of thrillers, westerns and other genre fiction. Raised in Arizona, Garfield found success at an early age, publishing his first novel when he was only eighteen �" which, at the time, made him one of the youngest writers of Western novels in print.
A former ranch-hand, he is a student of Western and South-western history, an expert on guns, and a sports car enthusiast. After time in the Army, a few years touring with a jazz band, and a Master's Degree from the University of Arizona, he settled into writing full time.
Garfield is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, and the only author to have held both offices. Nineteen of his novels have been made into films, including Death Wish (1972), The Last Hard Men (1976) and Hopscotch (1975), for which he wrote the screenplay.
To date, his novels have sold over twenty million copies worldwide. He and his wife live in California.