Guns Across the River (An Adventure Novel of the Mexican Revolution)

Mexico, 1913. Revolution is tearing the country apart, and Major Cade Onslow is about to discover just how quickly a man can lose everything.When Onslow and his loyal sergeant, Jonas Strong, cross the border into Mexico, they find themselves caught between rival armies, ruthless government troops and a country descending into chaos. Before long, both men are wanted by the US Army, with no safe road home.For Onslow, the conflict soon becomes brutally personal. His marriage to Linda Hoyos had offered the promise of a new life, but Colonel Montoya and his federales destroy that future in an act of savagery that leaves Onslow with only one purpose: revenge.Along the way he joins forces with two very different outcasts. Yates McCloud is a vicious gunman with nowhere left to run, while Jamie Durham, his face horribly scarred and his life ruled by morphine, possesses a deadly talent with explosives. Together with Strong, they become the Gringos—four Americans united less by friendship than by circumstance, survival and the promise of money.Their path takes them deep into the Mexican Revolution and into an uneasy alliance with Pancho Villa. Soon they are stealing weapons, hijacking a US Army munitions train and carrying the fight across the border, while Onslow relentlessly hunts the man responsible for his wife's death.With the armies of Huerta and Villa closing around them, the four outlaws must decide just how much they are prepared to risk—for freedom, for money and for vengeance.Four men with nothing to lose but their lives. And they didn't count much in the bloody fury of the rebellion. These were the Gringos.