Hunt the Beast Down

By Paul Lederer

The third installment in the Spectros series: In pursuit of his beloved, the master magician makes landfall on the Oregon coast

From Natchez to Denver, Mexico to Montana, Dr. Spectros has chased his nemesis, Blackschuster, across the length and breadth of North America. He nearly caught up with him in California, but the evil wizard slipped out of Spectros’s grasp. The trail grows warm again in the Oregon fishing village of Bear Harbor, where Blackschuster has come in search of the silver he needs to perform his sorcery.
 
With the help of a handsome gunslinger, a mute giant, and a skilled knife fighter, Spectros finally has a chance to destroy his enemy and rescue his beloved. But there are dark forces at work on the coast of Oregon, and Blackschuster has harnessed the powers of a beast whose very name strikes fear in the hearts of men. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Release date: Dec 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781497694057

Paul Lederer

Paul Lederer spent much of his childhood and young adult life in Texas. He worked for years in Asia and the Middle East for a military intelligence arm. Under his own name, he is best known for Tecumseh and the Indian Heritage Series, which focuses on American Indian life. He believes that the finest Westerns reflect ordinary people caught in unusual and dangerous circumstances, trying their best to act with honor.

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