Gatling was a master armorer, a dead shot and an expert in his field; which was death. Armed with the latest automatic weapons from all over the world and paid in gold to test them on living bodies, he was probably the single most dangerous man in the Old West. At his command he had more firepower than a cavalry regiment, and more guts than a Cheyenne war party. The Gatling Series by Peter McCurtin writing as Jack Slade.

08: TEXAS RENEGADE

THE MISSION

Weapons manufacturer Hiram Maxim was a man with a problem. The Ku Klux Klan and a labor movement known as the United Workers of America were cutting up rough and threatening to put his business partner, a Scottish laird-turned-meat packer named Kinnock, out of business. So he sent Gatling to West Texas with orders to deal with the bully-boys.

It was a tall order. Those fellers played for keeps and there wasn't much they wouldn't do to get their own way. Still, as rough as they played, Gatling played rougher. And with the latest weapons at his disposal, as well as an armed and armored Motor Scout car, Gatling was about to play plenty rough indeed.

Published December 01, 2023
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07: RAPID FIRE

THE MISSION

At the end of the Civil War, General Jackson Kilby took some of his fellow Confederates south to settle in a new land: Parimba Province, Brazil. There they prospered, and were continuing to prosper when Jorge Suarez, a violent revolutionary and his army of murderers and maniacs, threatened their continued survival.

The old general was a fighter. But to fight Suarez he needed guns. So he bought eighty thousand dollars' worth of weapons and ammunition from the Maxim Firearms Company, and Maxim's representative, Gatling, was sent along to make sure they arrived safely and that Kilby's men knew how to use them. Gatling had no intention of fighting the war himself. But Fate had other ideas about that. And that's why the Amazon started running red pretty soon after he got there.

Published October 01, 2023
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06: BUTTE BLOODBATH

THE MISSION

Butte, Montana was a blast furnace of violence and murder. On one side were the bloat-gut mine owners, who'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes; on the other, the fanatical anarchist, Michael Patrick Kane, who'd kill anyone for his cause. And in the middle was Gatling, who hated both sides equally. There would be a hot time in the old town when he unleashed his weapons on innocent and guilty alike.

Published June 01, 2023
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05: THE WAR WAGON

THE MISSION

In Mexico, the governor of a rebel state had hijacked a shipment of Lee-Enfield rifles and enough ammunition to start a small war.

The president of Mexico was worried, the president of the U.S. was worried - Gatling didn't give a damn.

But his boss, the colonel, told him to get those rifles back or get another job. Gatling couldn't afford a drain on his gold reserves, so he agreed. On one condition ...

Published April 01, 2023
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04: SOUTH OF THE BORDER

THE MISSION

The U.S. wanted a canal ripped through the jungles of Panama; a host of guerillas, outlaws and renegade politicians wanted the U.S. out.

Gatling didn't care who dug the hole, he just didn't want to be buried in it. He had work to do. The colonel had entrusted an array of new weapons to him to prove their worth in the field. Using live ammo against live targets was Gatling's specialty, and in Panama the bullets would be flying thicker than the bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

Published January 01, 2023
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01: ZUNI GOLD

He would need all of his skill to take on ....

THE MISSION

The Copper Trust was arming the savage Jicarilla Apaches to drive the peaceful Zunis off their land. A mountain of ore was at stake and the Zunis had only one weapon: Gatling.

The odds were a hundred to one against him, but Gatling figured it was the Apaches who had better start praying.

02: OUTLAW EMPIRE

THE MISSION

After thirty years in jail, Wilson Murrill was back in business, organizing every gang of cutthroats west of the Mississippi. The Italian Black Hand from New Orleans was ready to join, as was the Sydney Ducks, a group of Australian killers who ran roughshod over the Barbary Coast.

When combined with all the other isolated groups of vicious vermin, Murrill would control crime in the U.S. Only Gatling had the skill to eliminate him and his rabble. Only Gatling had the weapons to utterly destroy them all.

Published July 01, 2022
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03: BORDER WAR

THE MISSION

His baggage was heavy .37 millimeter Revolving Cannons that spat out death of biblical proportions-and a feeling of guilt that he'd have to use it on a half-trained Canadian militia. But he'd sold his soul to the Colonel for a box of gold and he couldn't turn back.
His task was to bring an arsenal of automatic weapons to the Métis people, mixed bloods who were planning a full-scale war against the Canadian government.

Backed by Irish revolutionaries and the crackpot Annex Canada Committee, Gatling was out to create an international incident that could explode into a world war.

Published October 01, 2022
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