Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves find themselves in the fight of their lives when they confront a mean-tempered outlaw who rules a shabby Texas town.

"As hip and breathless as William Gibson, but spiced with dark humor and the horrible realisation that Noon knows of what he writes....Vurtis passionate, distinctive, demanding and enthralling--first-time novelist Noon has started with a bang."--The London Times.

Credence, Texas, is a one-horse town. Dying on its feet since the closure of the Shawnee Trail, the place is divided by bitterness, resentment and feuds that have smouldered on for years. This is what Johnny Hartford finds when he returns home for his brother's wedding. Ten years before, he left the town in a blaze of glory to travel to Chicago to become a Pinkerton Agent. But that was before the war. Now everything has changed: his dying father will barely speak to him, his brother is running wild and longhorn rustling is rife. Determined to make amends with his family and catch the cattle thieves, Hartford turns to old Sheriff Milton for help. But the day after he arrives, a prominent local rancher is shot in the back and Hartford discovers that almost everyone in the town has a reason for wanting him dead.

As blood brothers Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves ride into the dry Arizona badlands, they're on a trail that leads deep into Apache territory toward the Mexican border, where a gang of desperadoes are running guns to the Apache and kidnapping children as white slaves. Original.

Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.

After King Petty, a ruthless outlaw, kills a homesteader in order to claim the man's wife for himself, blood brothers Matt Bodine and Sam Two-Wolves find themselves battling Petty's entire gang.