He was part-white, part-Apache, all killer. Born Matthew Gunn, and also known as Azul but around the border country they came to know him as Breed, and they feared the name, for it spelled violent death. He was a man with a mission of vengeance and bloodshed that carried him across the frontier territories of the lawless West.

17: THE DAY OF THE GUN

Matthew Gunn, alias Azul—half-white, half-Apache, all-killer—was just passing through Valverde, a two-bit town down on the border. So was Honest Abe Cannon, an ageing shootist with a deadly reputation.

Abe Cannon, weary of fighting and killing, was off to claim his ranch in Utah and spend the rest of his days in peace. The shoot-out in Valverde proved that Abe's days as a top gunfighter were numbered, So he hired Azul to escort him and his saddle bags full of money through hostile Apache country.

But on their trek north, Cannon and Azul ran into the savagery of Indian justice—a justice which Azul understood and meted out, but which Cannon would have to fight to understand.

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16: BAD HABITS

Breed, alias Azul, was a loner but when he met three nuns traveling across the desert, he offered to escort them. But somehow the trio didn't behave like nuns. They were skilled with guns and hardened to violent death. Breed had to kill many men to protect them but even the corpses were denied a Christian burial.

Then Breed discovered that the nuns were in cahoots with Mex banditos robbing the US gold shipments. So he led the Army troopers in a raid of horrible revenge that made the victims pray for mercy ...

15: SLAUGHTER TIME

The Masters clan had the town of Mattock in its pocket and no-one crossed Luke Masters if he valued his life. Until Breed happened into town. And had a showdown with Luke and his men which left Breed more dead than alive.

That was Luke's big mistake.

For Breed, alias Azul, was well acquainted with death, And when he returned on his quest for vengeance the violent and bloody legends of the West were going to take on a whole new savage reality ...

14: SPANISH GOLD

Billy Eagle had a problem. No-one loved a squaw man who had discovered a hoard of Inca treasure. And though Billy kept secret the location of his hidden cache, Cole Stanton wanted his gold. Wanted it badly, before he died of consumption.

So Billy was framed by Cole and his hands for a murder he didn't commit. Then Azul arrived on the scene.

Breed, alias Azul, had scores to settle with any white man who crossed a fellow half-breed. And together they laid a trail of blood and destruction that fired the scrubland ...

13: BOUNTY HUNTER

Around the Border they called him Breed. Part white, part Apache, he'd been christened Matthew Gunn, but the Apache had given him their own special name ... Azul.

Right now, Breed was in one whole load of trouble. He'd killed two men and got a price on his head. What he didn't know was that Fritz Baum, a bounty hunter with a taste for violent killing, had been paid a handsome sum for tracking down Breed and delivering him to a mysterious stranger in Cinqua. Baum's reputation was second to none &#emdash; but so was Breed's when it came to dealing in death. And when the two of them clashed the fighting took on a whole new shade-death red!

12: KILLER'S MOON

When Father Bartholomew and his daughter Rachel found Breed he looked more dead than alive.

Ambushed by the Sioux, Breed had lost his horse and a sizable stash of silver bullion. And now he thirsted for revenge.

First he had a debt of honor to settle with the Father for saving his life. Then he'd use his half-breed skills to track down his enemy and pay him for his treachery with a violent, bloody death.

One thing was certain, by the time Breed finished that Sioux would be beyond the help of even Father Bartholomew's prayers…

11: THE DYING AND THE DAMNED

When Matthew Gunn, known to the violent west as Breed, saved two women from certain death, he found he'd landed himself in big trouble.

The mother and daughter team were headed for Bandera and paid Breed to come along for the ride.

Only one problem: someone didn't want them to get there.

Several brushes with death later, Breed decided it was time to even the score. And when he got angry, blood and death, torture and murder followed in his wake as surely as night would follow day ...

10: OUTLAW ROAD

The Nillson gang who murdered Breed's woman and framed him for a bank robbery hadn't reckoned on his powers of survival

Half-white, half-Apache, Breed was an outcast with vengeance in his blood and murder in his heart. Nobody — but nobody messed with Breed and lived to remember it ...

And Breed, alias Azul, was full of rage — his one desire was to track down Nillson and his gang and inflict the gruesome, agonizing deaths de'd carefully planned for each and every one of them ...

09: BLOOD-STOCK!

Jody Taggart didn't have a friend in the world. Until the tall blond man called Breed found Taggart's horse shot dead and Taggart with a bullet in his mangled guts. Then the horse-breeder found the kind of friend he needed — the kind who dealt in death. Breed had his own code. An instinct for justice. He couldn't stand to see a horses of the quality that Taggart bred go to waste. He owed Taggart nothing but offered his help.

Dan Fogarty ran the township of Comstock and the surrounding lands—apart from Taggart’s place—and that didn't sit well with the land baron. But he soon found that you just don't mess with Breed. Not if you want to stay alive. And Fogarty's hired gunmen learned that the hard way as the land suddenly took on a whole new complexion — blood red!

08: BLOOD DEBT

The Kiowas slaughtered Amos and Eliza Marker without pity. They took young Jed, raised him as a Kiowa.

When Matthew Gunn, known and feared as Breed, was called by rich businessman Ty Horn, he didn't know his was Eliza's brother. Or that he had a crazed idea of saving Jed after all this time. Even when he knew, Breed didn't care.

And soon he had a debt of honour to be settled with the Kiowas - a debt paid strictly in torture, destruction and death ...

07: TIME OF THE WOLF

BREED IS HIS NAME ... KILLING IS HIS BUSINESS

Matthew Gunn, the man they called Breed, has a personal score to settle. His arch enemy, Nolan - the man who killed his parents - is still free. But Breed's luck is about to change.

Nolan has stolen $70,000 and a pair of printing plates but in doing so killed their owner and two Pinkerton detectives. Not the wisest of moves. The Pinkertons turn to Breed with an offer of $500 to bring in Nolan. But in doing so, he himself could be hunted down and face a twenty-year stretch in Leavenworth Prison.

Was it worth the risk? Breed thinks so ... he sought only death's ultimate satisfaction. The sight, the smell, the taste of the hunted's blood. Blood of vengeance. Nothing could stop Breed. Not the pistoleros in the savage town of Tubac. Not the ever-present threat of a nerve-tearing, agonizing, lonely death ...

06: THE JUDAS GOAT

Breed ... that was what they called him down along the Border. He had other names: Azul ... Matthew Gunn ... they all spelled DEATH!

The man who hired him to take a coffin and his wife south into Mexico forgot that. Forgot that Breed had no time for liars. And his own savage way of settling debts: with a gun. He forgot too, that Breed didn't forgive wrongs done to him. He was the kind of man who came back to pay the score. No matter who or what stood in his way.

And a coffin loaded with stolen money was an open invitation to trouble... the kind that followed Breed like mourners at a funeral.

05: THE GALLOWS TREE

CROSS BREED AND YOU'RE ASKING FOR TROUBLE!

Hunting down Nolan and Christie, the scalp-hunters who killed his parents, Breed came to the town called Two Bits, only to find bad trouble brewing.

Someone was hell-bent on setting the local white folks and Apaches at each other's throats so's they could make a dirty dollar or two out of the bloodshed.

Breed didn't much care for what he found. Two Bits was about to find out - the hard way - what it meant to mess with Breed.

04: DEATH STAGE

The Concorde Stage hurtled out of control down the perilous trail of Windy Pass. And right behind, and closing fast, rode three men with murder in their eyes. Then the shots rang out, and one by one the road bandits catapulted from their horses as their death-trail ended in a welter of blood.

And Breed smiled over the smoking barrel of his Winchester...

He was a killer with a merciless mission - to take vengeance on those who killed his parents. But to get to those, he must first help the township of Endurance take on a deadly force led by the crazed ex-Confederate Colonel Jonathan "Cal" Sibley.

And Endurance soon found out two things about this cold-eyed loner. First, that Breed was the man who had saved the stage. Second, that to cross Breed's path was to cross with death!

03: CRY FOR VENGEANCE SILENT KILL

The man was called Matthew Gunn, tough some called him Breed. And they avoided him, for Breed meant danger!

Now he stood alone on the blood-stained sand and waited. Death shone in his pale blue eyes and a cold rage filled his heart.

The Comanche was nothing to him, merely an obstacle blocking his trail of revenge - an obstacle to be removed.

The Comanche wheeled his pony round and charged towards the man who stood between him and his dream of war. The long war lance glinted bright in the afternoon soon, its razor-sharp tip pointing straight at the half-breed's heart!

02: THE SILENT KILL

The half-breed, Matthew Gunn, had trailed his quarry through the waterless hell of the Nevada desert, up to the snow covered crags of the high Sierras.

In his wake was a trail of blood which tainted his footsteps and marked him as a killer. Three of the scalp-hunters who had killed his parents are dead. Now he approached the culmination of his long pursuit - vengeance on the remaining murderers!

Cold and merciless in his pursuit - nothing would stand in his way, because he was called Breed - and the name spelled violent death!

01: THE LONELY HUNT

Azul returns to his village to find it destroyed and all the men, women and children massacred, including his white father and Apache mother. All killed for their hair. Matthew Gunn aka Azul swears to a blood oath. He will find and kill the six scalp hunters, slowly, painfully.

It's not just the scalp hunters who will suffer a lingering death at the hands of Azul, there are others who become targets for the half-breed's wrath. As the death toll mounts, so Azul becomes a wanted man. Soon the Federales are out to stop him, and they have an Indian tracker. This Yaqui becoming a major problem that Azul has to deal with, but not quite as expected.