Dead Men Don't Lie. Jackson Cain

Dead Men Don't Lie

“Original, vibrant, and intelligent; the characters leap from the page thanks to authentic settings, nonstop action, backstabbing villains, and rough justice. These novels are tough as nails, written by a pro who knows what he’s doing.”

—STEVE BERRY, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Order

“Tougher than William Johnstone, grittier than Louis L’Amour, Jackson Cain writes as if he were the illegitimate love child of Sam Peckinpah and Cormac McCarthy.”

—WILLIAM MARTIN, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Lifetime Achievement Award for historical fiction

“These novels have amazing narrative command.

Everything is strong: storytelling and characterization as well as pace and tempo. They’re Technicolor and widescreen combined. Jackson Cain has written both a thriller and a western.”

—RICHARD WHEELER, winner of Western Writers’ Lifetime Achievement Award and five other major awards

“This is the Wild West—as vividly re-created as has ever been done on the page or screen. Hits with the force of a Winchester ’73 bullet and the kick of a wild horse.

—RALPH PETERS, New York Times bestselling author of Judgment at Appomattox and winner of three Boyd Awards and the Hammett Prize

“Forget about William Johnstone and Zane Grey, Longarm and Louis L’Amour, Jackson Cain can outwrite them all. His shoot-outs, high-stakes poker games, prison breaks, and bank jobs hit home with pulse-pounding action and blood-curdling thrills. Never has the Wild West been wilder!”

—WARD LARSEN, USA Today bestselling author

“I’m beyond impressed. Every sentence in these books is beautifully crafted and rich with authority and authenticity.”

—LUCIA ST. CLAIR-ROBSON, New York Times bestselling author and winner of two Spur Awards

“William Johnstone and Louis L’Amour, there’s a new gunslinger in town. Cain’s books pack the punch of a hundred-caliber Gatling gun.”

—DAVID HAGBERG, New York Times bestselling author and winner of five major book awards

“The dialogue in his Wild West swashbucklers sings with coarse authenticity, and the stories are alive! No action novelist has ever written anything quite as gripping as Jackson Cain.”

—MIKE BLAKELY, two-time Spur Award-winner

DEAD MEN DON’T LIE

An Outlaw Torn Slater Western

JACKSON CAIN

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Table of Contents

Praise Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph PROLOGUE PART I

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4

PART II