The Killing Ground — Charles R. Pike

Death stalks Jubal Cade on the peaceful streets of St Louis.He has come East to visit Andy, the blind orphan he had sworn to care for, in the prestigious Lenz Clinic.For a short while, life seems good again, and the sharp-shooting medico lowers his guard. Just long enough for a cold-blooded gunman to get him on the wrong end of a rifle barrel.And when Jubal recovers from his near-fatal wounds, he discovers that Andy has been snatched — to killing-ground of Kansas, where ghost towns echo with the nerve-tearing agony of violent death...