The Hawk #10

When two crooked gamblers fleece an old prospector and leave him for dead in the remote hills, the Hawk picks up their trail across the brutal desert wastes—only to discover the killers are locked in a deadly struggle against thirst, heat, and their own murderous greed. As buzzards circle overhead and the desert itself becomes executioner, the Hawk closes in on the criminals to learn what terrible secret lies buried in the sand.

A desperate train robbery near Colorado Junction sets three bandits fleeing toward the notorious hideout of Devil's Den—but newly sworn lawman Santa Fe Norton has a plan to infiltrate their sanctuary and turn them against each other. With the local marshal laid up and a reluctant dry goods clerk deputized as cover, Norton adopts a false identity and rides into the outlaw stronghold, gambling that deception and quick wits will succeed where three previous lawmen failed. Every move could be his last in this tense western tale of bluff and betrayal.

When a tenderfoot named Henry Fairchild arrives to start a ranch on the frontier, Buckskin Belle takes him under her wing—but her well-meaning help soon tangles them both in a water-rights dispute with the ruthless Rex Milton. As Hank struggles to prove his claim and dig his own wells to save his herd, Belle uncovers a sinister plot that threatens everything they've built, testing whether the young easterner can stand on his own against the perils of the prairie.