Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold!

     Revenge is A Dish Best Served Cold! © 2014 by Raymond Cook is a 288 page story about a long-time feud between two families outside Marble, Colorado in 1898. On one side were Frank Baker and his four grown sons, Jasper, Seth, Gerald and Bryant. His neighbors Jess and Tamara Euland owned a cattle ranch beside a lake in a boxed end of a canyon. Frank repeatedly offered Jess money if he could water his cattle at his lake but Jess didn’t like the Bakers and refused.

     One September morning Frank and his sons saw Jess and his wife Tamara outside Campbell’s General Store. Both of them are shot in the back. Jess was killed and Frank and his sons fled Marble. Tamara was seriously wounded and it takes her months to recover. She vows to chase her husband’s killers clear to hell if she has to. When a circus comes to town Tamara watches a quick draw contest and sees a stranger draw and shoot as fast as lightning.

     After paying the gunfighter to teach her how to be as fast with a gun as she can be, she visits her Jess’s grave and says goodbye. Tamara sets out on what eventually becomes a 400 mile journey to catch up to and kill Frank, Jasper, Seth, Gerald and Bryant Baker. But along the way she’ll ride into the burned out town of Delta and discover the only one left alive is a six year old child. She rides back to a family whose baby died at birth and lets them raise him.

    Armed with her husband’s Colt 45 Peacemaker pistol and a handful of wanted posters Tamara will ride from town to town looking for Jess’s killers. Will Tamara’s be fast enough to bring closure to the saddest day of her life? More importantly, if Tamara does survive each confrontation with her husband’s killers, what will she do when the last man is dead?