Gruff Garrett Series

Gruff Garrett is an old US Marshal. He's pushing a little past sixty now, and he's starting to feel the wear and tear of age. Time shows no mercy to anyone as Gruff starts to feel a lot weaker, with a shorter step, trembling hands, and a ticker that always seems to threaten to give out. Gruff is always wondering if it's time for him to call it quits and retire. After all, it's clear that his best years as a marshal are behind him. Or are they? Gruff just can't turn in his badge and retire as a US marshal. After all, it's all he's ever really known to do in his life. After Ma Edgar Hoyce, an old lady who leads a family of robbers and murderers robs a local bank, it's up to Gruff and two other much younger US marshals to track her and her murderous family down. Gruff thinks he knows where Ma Edgar and her vicious kids are but the young marshals doubt his capabilities. They question his competence because of his advanced age, but Gruff pays them no heed. The two younger men take one path and Gruff takes another. Gruff takes the right path and manages to track down Ma Edgar and her vicious family. He's found them now, but can he survive a gunfight against them.

Gruff Garrett, the old and aging US Marshal has one last job to do. It's a routine task that was tailor made to fit his advancing age. Garrett was tasked with going to the small mining town of Blue Rock, and picking up a captured outlaw by the name of John Bryan. At first glance, it seems like a routine enough assignment, a fitting sendoff for an aging US marshal like himself. It shouldn't be so hard for an old timer like Garrett to do,  and it seems like the perfect assignment for Garrett to go out on a positive note. All this changes, however, when Garrett realizes that John Bryan is really his old rival Paolo Dixon, a sly aging outlaw that has a rough history with Garrett. The two old nemeses meet, and tensions run high. Garrett has to escort his old nemesis back to the marshals where he can stand trial for his crimes, but it won't be that simple. Dixon keeps ranting that his gang the 'Poison Club' is out to rescue him and will stop at nothing and kill anyone who tries to stand in their way. Aside from them, there are other men that Dixon has made enemies with who are also out to get him. Garrett will have to decide whether it's still worth it to finish his job and protect his old nemesis. How far is the old lawdog willing to go, just to uphold the law?