U.S. Marshal - Shorty Thompson: The First in the U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson Series

In 1870s America, outlaws and lawmen alike lived hard lives across a southwestern frontier of bitter winters, scorching deserts and sharp moral contrasts. U.S. Marshal M. D. "Shorty" Thompson, a small man with a large reputation for courage, is one of the officers President Hayes has trusted with the job.

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He arrives too late to save Sister Anna, a nun who dies asking for her priest, and his task is to guard the huge man accused of killing her. Witnesses say he did it, but none of them saw it happen. Thompson would rather face a gang of outlaws than sort through such a tangle, and the longer the evidence stays missing, the greater the danger that ordinary townsfolk will take justice into their own hands.

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