The Outlaws #10

Ben Randal, the sneaky outlaw known as the Little Weasel, has a reputation for double-crossing anyone in his path—and when he stumbles upon three bandits camped with stolen gold from a stagecoach robbery, he seizes the chance to pull off a cunning heist of his own. But his scheme to swindle the thieves and escape across the California border sets him on a collision course with forces he may have underestimated, and the Weasel discovers that even the cleverest crook can find himself cornered.

In 1859 California, Henry Plummer shoots a man over a woman and begins a violent spiral that leads to imprisonment—but a carefully timed pardon for illness gets him released, and he escapes to the mining town of Bannack in 1862 with grand ambitions to run the place. Once established, Plummer manipulates his way into the sheriff's office, then uses his position to orchestrate a ruthless gang of road agents who rob and murder travelers throughout Idaho, controlling the town through violence and intimidation. As honest citizens band together to expose the conspiracy, Plummer's carefully constructed empire of crime begins to crack under the weight of his own cruelty.

Ben Thompson, a noted gambler turned killer, rules the Old West through sheer intimidation and a lightning-fast draw, terrorizing entire communities with his six-shooters until the fear he's sown becomes his undoing. This story chronicles the gunman's ruthless reign across saloons, banquets, and marshal's offices, where his arrogance and hunger for violence finally catch up with him.