Fighting Man

George Cummings came to the town of Lanyard as a private detective with a brilliant record--the man who claimed to have killed Jim Dancer, the most dangerous man in the west, a marshal with a record, a killer with a badge. But George Cummings had a secret--he was really Jim Dancer, and he saw this as his chance to start over with a respectable past. What he hadn't figured on was, someone with an old score to settle arrived in town....Frank Gruber has created an exceptional book with Fighting Man, as it is also the telling of the American west, of the challenges, and rewards available to anyone brave enough to challenge them. His work is fast paced, using short crisp sentences, few adjectives, and using multiple points of view making the book almost like watching a movie. That probably came from the fact Mr. Gruber wrote many screenplays for both the movies and television during his life time. This is a highly entertaining book.