Kinch Riley

THE YOUNG DRIFTER HAD A TASTE FOR LIFE.
THE OLD GUNFIGHTER HAD A DATE WITH DEATH.
THEIR FRIENDSHIP LED TO A KILLING STORM—AND A TRUE LEGEND OF THE FRONTIER.

He was young and hungry for life—a scarecrow kid alone in a lawless land. Something about the boy named Kinch Riley made hardened railroad agent Mike McCluskie take him under wing: show him how to fight and shoot and sample the bawdy wonders of a wide-open boomtown. But Kinch got too fast with a gun just as a band of Texas outlaws rode into the Kansas railhead of Newton. And for the first time in his life, McCluskie will walk into a battle he can't win—because a boy's future is at stake, and so is a man's soul...

KINCH RILEY is Matt Braun's masterful retelling of a true Western mystery—the Newton General Massacre of 1871—when six men died in 90 seconds, a boy vanished into the plains, and a legend was born…