Gun Trap — Bill Reno

Once, Jess Packard was the most feared and respected man in Aurora. As sheriff, he'd brought law to the tough mining town and controlled the simmering dispute between the Winnemucca and Young America mines. But that was before Judd Colden and his Winnemucca-hired enforcers rode into Aurora...before the brutality and bloodshed...before the suspicion that the sheriff's own brother rides with the gang and that Packard is turning a blind eye to the whole business. Now Aurora is a powder keg ready to blow sky-high. Packard has lost his reputation and his fiancée -- and might lose his job. But star or no star, he's vowed to stop Colden and his killers if it's the last thing he does. Maybe they can take away his badge. But they can't take away his honor.

THE BADGE
To a violent land, a frontier yet untamed, came a man who wore a badge of law and order. He faced the myriad dangers and paid the price in blood to become one of the most enduring heroic figures of the Old West.