The Lonely Men » (Reissue)

Louis L'Amour's 115 title-plus bibliography is astonishing on its own; even more so given the fact that his writing career did not start in earnest until his 40s. Simply being prolific, however, does not a bestselling author make. L'Amour's Western stories, as written by a real-life adventurer, capture the survivalism and code of honor on which the American frontier mythology rests.

When his nephew is kidnapped by Apache warriors, Tell Sackett becomes the loneliest of men. No stranger to the cunning of the Apaches, Tell knows they can smell a white man a mile away - and then shoot his eyes out at a dead gallop. Accompanied by John J. Battles, Spanish Murphy and the half-breed Tampico, Tell is lured into the Apaches' Sierra Madre stronghold, impelled by the pleas of his nephew's mother. But as he searches for the boy, he begins to suspect that his deadliest enemy may not be the kidnappers. Could his nephew's mother be inventing a rescue mission to deliver her brother-in-law into the hands of an ambush? When water runs thicker than blood, Tell has only his wits and cold steel to depend on.