About the Author

Nicholas Litchfield is the founding editor of the literary magazine Lowestoft Chronicle and author of the suspense novel Swampjack Virus. He has worked in various countries as a journalist, librarian, and media researcher. He writes regularly for the Colorado Review and his book reviews for the Lancashire Post are syndicated to twenty-five newspapers across the UK. He lives in western New York with his wife and two children. Matthew P. Mayo is an award-winning author of thirty books and dozens of short stories. His novel, Tucker's Reckoning, won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and his short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists. His many novels include Winters' War; Wrong Town; Hot Lead, Cold Heart; The Outfit: To Hell and Back; North of Forsaken; The Hunted; Shotgun Charlie, and others. Matthew's numerous nonfiction books include the bestselling Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears; Haunted Old West; Jerks in New England History; and Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen. He has been an on-screen expert for a popular BBC-TV series about lost treasure in the American West, and has had three books optioned for film. Matthew and his wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, rove the byways of North America in search of hot coffee, tasty whiskey, and high adventure.