Arizona Territory, May 1896
Canyon Diablo is a reascendant Gomorrah.
With rail bridge construction halted by hellfire and tragedy, and railroad companies warring with local land owners to complete it, the town becomes an open boil on the Arizona Desert.
Gamblers proliferate. Prostitutes ply their trade. Brigands roam on the roadways, waylaying the innocent for an unknown purpose.
But the bandits are not alone.
Something stirs in the Painted Desert. Someone systematically exterminates coach robbers and murderers. Dealing out a deadly reckoning to all who assail the weak.
Gunfight after gunfight. Coffin after coffin. Legend soon grows of this phantom of the high desert.
A lone pistolier dispensing God's judgment. A one-man vendetta ride, wielding a strange mechanical weapon of the Old World. Baptizing the heathen in hails of gunfire.
Eventually, folk find a name for this masked missionary of death...
The Ghost of the BadlandsA rollicking mix of gunplay, quips, and romance. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Beautifully captures the visual style of the Jazz Age. -- BOOKLIST
It's 1927 and Prohibition is in full effect in St. Louis, Missouri. Organized crime has risen to meet the relentless demand for illicit alcohol. Bootleggers, gangsters, and might-makes-right dominate the city's underworld, fueled by the patrons of speakeasies like Lackadaisy, run by the unstoppable force of widowed Mitzi May. Or at least, she seemed unstoppable until now.
After a violent raid from a rival operation left bullet holes all over Lackadaisy -- and inside Mitzi's trusted confidante Viktor -- the situation is getting desperate in the glamorous pleasure palace hidden under the unassuming Little Daisy Cafe. As her charms fail to secure new business partners and the faith of her posse waivers, ambitious external forces press ever closer in. The gang struggles to secure booze, suss out new connections, and recover from recent traumas, all while the walls keep closing in.
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Arizona Territory, May 1896
Canyon Diablo is a reascendant Gomorrah.
With rail bridge construction halted by hellfire and tragedy, and railroad companies warring with local land owners to complete it, the town becomes an open boil on the Arizona Desert.
Gamblers proliferate. Prostitutes ply their trade. Brigands roam on the roadways, waylaying the innocent for an unknown purpose.
But the bandits are not alone.
Something stirs in the Painted Desert. Someone systematically exterminates coach robbers and murderers. Dealing out a deadly reckoning to all who assail the weak.
Gunfight after gunfight. Coffin after coffin. Legend soon grows of this phantom of the high desert.
A lone pistolier dispensing God's judgment. A one-man vendetta ride, wielding a strange mechanical weapon of the Old World. Baptizing the heathen in hails of gunfire.
Eventually, folk find a name for this masked missionary of death...
The Ghost of the Badlands