Giles A. Lutz (1910–1982)

As a child Lee Martin watched Cleatis Ashbaugh and his thugs beat his father and burn their home and send them packing. Now as young man who is full of hate for the Ashbaughs and their foreman, Orrie Pratt, he has come back to wreak vengeance on the Ashbaughs and their ranch including Kate Ashbaugh who he liked as a youth.

The plot is how this is all worked out by Lee as he returns incognito in order to take his revenge and how he tries to stay ahead of the obstacles that come up. Fast moving plot keeps the reader interested.… (mere)

Dave Enders is on the way to Tucson, AZ to help a friend and try to patch things up with his old girlfriend. His horse goes lame in the desert and dies leaving him far from water. Found by a group of Gringo hating Mexicans, he expects help but they laugh & leave him to die.

A chance encounter with a delivery wagon ensures he survives to make it to Tucson where he learns he has been sought after to catch the very men who left him in the desert. His girlfriend is planning to marry the town big shot who Enders immediately takes a disliking for.

Enders searches the desert for Miguel Blanco, the outlaw leader, and ends up saving him from sure death via grizzly attack. He discovers that Blanco is killing Gringos but only men who took part in the lynching of Blanco's brother who he shows Enders was framed for horse stealing. However, many other men, women & children are being gruesomely killed and Blanco is blamed. Enders lays a trap for the killers and discovers his girlfriend's beau is the leader who is using the hatred of Blanco and Mexicans in general to hide his crimes.

Blanco kills his girlfriend in a jealous rage but dies trying to kill Enders. Enders gets his girl and retires from law enforcement for ranching.… (mere)