Hard Ride to Red Rock — Ronald Martin Wade

Self-exiled from his home-town for two years after he killed a man in a shoot-out, Benjamin Cage plans to return to Red Rock, Texas after he completes a trail drive. On the way, he fights and captures a ruthless and perverted murderer. Reaching Red Rock, Cage finds the town terrorized by a mining company's hired gun. When the gunman murders the town marshal, Cage must face uneven odds to confront the killer. As these events transpire, he learns that the murderer he captured has escaped and plans to take vengeance on him by kidnapping his lover and torturing her to death. His plan for trapping the killer is confounded by a daring bank robbery and Cage must summon all his courage and skills to face a sadistic killer in a horrifying final battle.