Ambush at Torture Canyon — Max Brand

INTO AN INFERNO OF SLOW DEATH!

Silas Durfee had been a Texas Ranger, and he'd fought it out with some tough characters. But there had been an outlaw like Spot Lester -- cold, cruel, he's as soon slit a throat as swat a fly. And now Lester had kidnapped Durfee's niece and was heading for the mountain!

Durfee knew it was a trap. But if he ever wanted to see his niece alive again, he had to take the chance. He and Henry St. Clair and Thomas Bunce set out in pursuit, and pretty soon Lester had them right where he wanted them -- pinned down by rifle fire in the infernal heat of Torture Canyon, where the blinding sun was enough to turn a man's brain to smoke…