title: Love, Death, and Other War Stories: Tales of Crime and Punishment in the  Wild West
author:  Victor Cass 
description: <b>Victor Cass</b> was born in 1968 in Kingsville, Texas, and raised in Pasadena, California. He is a 12-year-veteran of the Pasadena Police Department, having been a street cop in the Northwest neighborhood, and a detective, assigned to Bunco-Major Theft. He lives in Pasadena.
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  The Home of Great Western
  
  
  Fiction!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  The Jarvess bunch had a hard
  
  
  reputation. Over the years Old Man Jarvess and his sons, Tag and
  
  
  Chet, had robbed and slaughtered their way right across the
  
  
  territory. And they kept the proceeds from their robberies hidden
  
  
  away high up in the hills, where only they could ever get at
  
  
  it.
  
  
  Until Cody Mann came along
  
  
  …
  
  
  Cody was every bit as
  
  
  villainous as the Jarvess bunch, and when he found the Old Man shot
  
  
  full of holes and dying fast, his first priority was to get the
  
  
  location of the hideout. The answer came in the form of a riddle,
  
  
  and before he could solve it, Clay Nash, Wells Fargo’s top agent,
  
  
  clapped a set of manacles on him.
  
  
  To help a distraught woman
  
  
  and her crippled husband, however, Clay had to trust Cody Mann to
  
  
  take him to the loot. And trusting Cody Mann was a bit like
  
  
  trusting a hungr