A Pack of Predators (ePub)

At age thirty-five, Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe had eleven years' experience as a lawman. When he and Deputy Steve Larson were charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to the newly established Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems.

Gibbs and his gang had stolen $25,000 from Southwestern. When Larson gets snakebit and dies, Fyffe finds himself almost three days away from the Yuma prison with no one to spell him while he sleeps. It doesn't take long for Gibbs's gang, who had been looking for their leader, to find them when Fyffe fires a shot as Gibbs tries to get away. Fyffe is overtaken by the gang and suffers at their hands.

The gang hatches a plan for Gibbs to pose as Fyffe and one of his men to pose as Larson, and to deliver Fyffe to Yuma prison, claiming he is Luther Gibbs. In spite of Fyffe's insistence that he is in fact the federal marshal, he finds himself as prisoner number 109. In addition to fearing that Gibbs will get to the money and get away, Fyffe must survive in a prison where he'll surely be recognized by someone he sent there.

S. I. Soper was born in a small farming community near Chehalis, Washington. She has also lived in Oregon, California, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri. When not writing, she enjoys traveling, especially by Amtrak route. She has traveled to Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico, Yucatan, South Sea Islands, Canada, and all over the United States by train, plane, car, bus, ship, mule train, camel caravan, and wagon train. She has ridden by mule down into the Grand Canyon to Phantom Ranch twice.