"He was part yanqui, part Mexican, part black, part Comanche. He was all man - and every inch a killer. He called himself Espada, the "Ace of Spades" in Spanish, and that was the calling card he left on the bullet-ridden corpses of his victims. Espada aimed to move in on the Stantons - and he was ready to gun down anybody who stood in his way, or else simply break him in his huge bare hands. This was the man against whom Jaime Henry, the Stanton ranch's...

"Spencer Stanton's word was law. He had killed many to win his vast cattle spread, and would do anything fair or foul to keep it. Every ranchhand, every neighboring landowner, every roaming Indian tribe knew better than to cross this man's power, this man's pride. But some hadn't gotten the message: a trio of vicious gunmen who murdered and raped as naturally as they drew breath, a giant bull-like cattle baron who lusted after Stanton's prime beef,...