His prisoner had help—but Longarm never saw who it was. The backshooter's bullet creased the nape of his neck, knocking him from his horse and rendering him unconscious. Eager to make his getaway, Alton Gray made a fatal error—he didn't take a moment to confirm that the lawman was dead. Now Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is back on the trail of the runaway prisoner—and his ambushing accomplice. A corrupt town marshal and a wily woman of ill repute may lead him to the elusive escapee, but to finish the job he started, Longarm will have to stick his neck out one more time...

Longarm’s settling a war—on his terms.There’s a bloody war brewing between money-hungry gold-diggers and the fierce San Carlos Apaches over the most desirable element in nature— water. U.S. Marshal Custis Long is assigned to settle this situation in the deadliest part of Arizona, Canyon City. But he’s not alone. He’s getting a little help from an unlikely lot including an old fogy named Gassy, a temperamental donkey named Ugly, and a striking Apache woman, Donita Ramirez. Longarm soon discovers that this dispute is far more complex than even he imagined. He’ll just have to give both sides a greater concern than their precious water— and it will be whether or not they’re the next to face down his smoking derringer.

Brick Flanders is wanted for stealing a passel of treasury notes. But he's sent to a smokey grave when someone sets his Denver rooming house ablaze. Tracking the greedy arsonist, Longarm winds up in Santee country, where the Indians are about to wage a land claims battle. Now, Longarm must fight one enemy to get to another.

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IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE... They say actions speak louder than words. So when two masked men with sawed-off shotguns stop the South Park stagecoach, they don't need to announce their intentions. Since the silent thieves are helping themselves to the United States mail, Deputy Marshal Custis Long is charged with reining in the robbers.When he's not driving the stagecoach to smoke out the highwaymen, Longarm is driven to distraction by the gorgeous and insatiable widow who owns the stagecoach line. But with the bandits lying low, Longarm starts to feel like he's just spinning his wheels—until he sets a trap that will have the hushed highwaymen crying out for mercy...

SMELLS LIKE MEAN SPIRITS Half of a Deputy Federal Marshal was pulled out of a New Orleans swamp, and Longarm's sent to pick up the scent--undercover, of course. At first, the city is a regular Mardi Gras of Maryland rye, Louisiana cooking, and the steamy French sheets of Miss Annie Clement. But like good weather, it don't last. Seems the truth is uglier than a gulch town madam. There's smugglers--lots of them. Smellier than a low tide lunch and more than happy to kill a man several times over just for bathing. And there's the matter of a mysterious Cajun beauty named Claudette. She may know something about a real mystery...like the voodoo doll made in the likeness of a Deputy Federal Marshal. DON'T MISS OTHERS IN THE SERIES!

There are unwritten laws in the West that are only broken at the risk of death. And one of them is that you shouldn't mess with another man's wife. When a Mr. Atilla Hornagy accuses Longarm of rustling the sheets with his missus, Longarm's going to need all his gunfighting skill to survive. Because not even a marshal's badge can protect a man from a husband scorned.

Escondrijo is a quiet town on the Texas coast, so Custis Long isn't expecting trouble when he heads there on his newest assignment: to escort a prisoner to Colorado. He soon finds that it's easier said than done, because a couple of trigger-happy back-shooters have the Deputy Marshal in their sights.

Longarm’s after a killer who slays with fire…In her youth, her fiery temper and wild ways earned her the nickname Naughty Nellie. But this close kin to Marshal Billy Vail is no killer—at least Billy doesn’t think so. A jury in Carson City disagrees, and they’ve sentenced Nellie to hang for burning her husband alive in their marriage bed.   Billy has always turned to his best deputy marshal to put out his fires—but this time it’s personal. Longarm barely has time to rekindle his romance with a Denver waitress before he lights out for Carson City. After he sees Nellie, he’s determined to make sure an innocent widow doesn’t go to the gallows—and a match-happy murderer burns in hell…

Longarm has to rein in some rustlers…Longarm tracks some rustled army horses to Jefferson Boyd—who swears he has government bills of sale. Longarm knows that he’s guilty, but Boyd will almost certainly beat the charge because there’s almost no way to prove these are the same stolen horses. But when someone slips Boyd strychnine with his jailhouse meal, he ends up taking a permanent after-dinner nap. Now, Longarm is not only after a gang of mere rustlers but the killers of his material witness—who’ll turn anyone in their way into dead meat…

A SHOT IN THE DARK It?™s sort of an unwritten code of the West?"if you shoot a woman who?™s trying to steal your horse, you promise to find her kidnapped daughter. United States Deputy Marshal Custis Long was all set for a relaxing vacation up in the mountains, catching trout and smoking cheroots as he watched the sunset. Instead, he?™s startled out of his bedroll by someone trying to steal his horse. Longarm shoots first, only to discover the “thief” is actually a woman in desperate straits. After getting her help and learning that her sixteen-year-old daughter has been abducted by three men, Longarm sets off to recover the girl. But the mountains hold many surprises, and this is one rescue mission he may not return from… DON?™T MISS OTHERS IN THE SERIES!

Longarm is caught in the crosshairs of a contract killer!When Marshal Custis Long busts a man and woman in a sex-and-blackmail scam, he stumbles on a big break in another case. The pair claims to know the identity of a notorious bomber who’s been robbing post offices and blowing up mail pouches just for fun. He grudgingly accompanies the felons on a trip to draw out the culprit—accompanied by a prim, proper, and pretty prison matron.   But the town of Hyde’s Junction holds more trouble than just the mad bomber, including two luscious ladies who want Longarm in bed—and an eagle-eyed assassin who wants him dead…

WIDOW MAKER Sheriff Des Rainey was a good lawman, just doing his job, returning from a ranch left in charred ruins after giving the murdered corpses left behind a decent burial. But someone got the drop on him as he was stepping into his own jailhouse?"and a shotgun blast blew him clear back out into the muddy main street of Diamondback. Rainey was a good friend of Marshal Billy Vail. They?™d served as Texas Rangers together. So Billy sent his best deputy marshal to find the killer who made Mrs. Rainey a widow. But when Longarm rides into Diamondback, no one?™s talking?"except the young, beautiful widow herself, who will do anything to get Longarm to find her husband?™s killer…

Longarm knows a pardon’s no good to a man if he’s six feet under…Of the many men Longarm’s brought to the gallows, most proclaimed their innocence. But Neal Bird, who’s set to swing for killing a shopkeeper and an Arapaho girl, might not be spinning yarns. Trouble is, his yellow lawyers have abandoned him...   Something in Longarm believes Bird. So he sets out to pin the real killer. But finding the suspected cowhand who goes by Billy Boy could prove a challenge—and time’s a-ticking…