Orem Library

Fackler's acclaimed Seth Strummar series continues with Badlands, in which the hired gunman, after decades and countless murders, has retired at last. His fragile peace is shattered when Lila Keats comes to town. Gorgeous, cunning and diabolical, she's determined to settle an old score with Strummar, who must now marshal all the resources of his blood-stained past in order to bury it forever.

In this superbly detailed frontier novel featuring Texas outlaw Seth Strummer, our hero at last achieves a humble form of justice that allows him to break even with his past. When Seth falls in love with Hekuba Free, the sister of Joaquin's new bride, he hides their love from his wife while flaunting it in town. It's a deadly game of retribution as Seth must face down sheriff Joaquin in a final battle between two old adversaries. The culminating novel...