Law of the Rope

Jory Sherman

Gunn Libro 7 · Speaking Volumes

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JAIL BAIT

More than the mail is posted when the Overland Mail coach is raided by bandits at Raton Pass. One man is killed, and all hands point to Gunn after Carrie Logan, the victim's hysterical, but heavenly, daughter singles him out as the man who pulled the trigger. The sheriff's posse wants to string him up right there—and Gunn ends up in jail charged with a crime he didn't commit.

Gunn is not one to take things lying down, but before he even gets a chance to work out an escape plan, his cell is stormed by an angry mob. Luckily he survives, which leaves him with only one problem: convincing Carrie that he is not her father's murderer. His life depends on finding the solution—and he guesses he'll have to pull more than one trick from his pocket...

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Jory Sherman (Cort Martin) began his literary career as a poet in San Francisco’s famed North Beach in the late 1950s, during the heyday of the Beat Generation. His poetry and short stories were widely published in literary journals when he began writing commercial fiction. He has won numerous awards for his poetry and prose and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Letters for his novel, Grass Kingdom. He won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America for The Medicine Horn. He has also won a number of awards from the Missouri Writers Guild, and other organizations. Jory is a life member of Missouri Writers Guild and Ozarks Writers League. He is the current recipient of the highest award presented by Western Writers of America, the Owen Wister Award, granted for lifetime achievement. Spur Award-Winning Author Owen Wister Award-Winning Author Jory Sherman also writes under the pseudonym Cort Martin