The Deserter

Popular author of over 30 novels, Paul Bagdon is acclaimed for his crisply written, action-packed Westerns. In this Spur Award finalist, the senseless brutality of the Battle of Gettysburg convinces Confederate sharpshooter Jake Sinclair to flee the carnage of war and return home. Buried in the gore of Pickett's charge, he outshoots a murderous battlefield scavenger and takes the villain's saddle for himself. But when a sheriff later recognizes this saddle, Jake finds himself on the run again-this time for murder.