Crossing Fire River — Ralph Cotton

THE LONG RIDE HOME
Lawrence Shaw is known on both sides of the border -- as the fastest gun alive and for other reasons he'd like to forget. He's just spent a month in Old Mexico, drowning his demons in mescal, tequila, and peyote wine. But when his drunken sabbatical ends, he faces more than a lethal hangover.

It begins when Shaw kills two bushwhacking banditos, becomes quarry for ruthless bounty hunters led by a cunning Mexican agent, and stumbles across a long-dead body in a cave. When he returns the remains to the town of Banton -- where a powerful cattle king has claimed dominion over all he surveys -- his bloody past is resurrected. And it will take every bit of iron will Shaw has left if he wants to live long enough to find redemption.