Frederick H. Christian

Frank Angel comes back to the ranch where he punches cows to find his boss and another hand shot dead. It is what the seven outlaws did to his boss' wife that sets him. After raping her , they threw her alive into the burning ranch house with the body of her dead husband. Frank is badly burned rescuing her but she dies. He sets out on a trail of vengeance which goes well at first because the outlaws do not know he exists and that he is following them.

This is the first in a series of novels show more about Frank Angel who becomes a special agent for the US Department of Justice. Frank Angel actually existed and was a special agent with the Department of Justice. One of his most important investigations was the murder of John Henry Tunstall in Lincoln County Feb. 17, 1878 which sparked the Lincoln County Wars which made Billy the Kid famous. Christian claims that descriptions of places like San Francisco and Silver City are accurate for the time period of this novel.

Frederick H Christian's real name is Frederick Nolan, the name he uses for his historical books such as the one entitled the Lincoln County Wars and his novels set in modern times such as The Algonquin Project.

If the other novels in this series are as fast moving as this one, they will be worth picking up. show less

Wow, good thing Rio Bravo is my favorite western, because this book is pretty much a copy. Just throw the Department of Justice's best agent in with John Wayne and Dean Martin and you have Hunt Angel.