Book Synopsis
When Jake Jordan begins the search for his mother’s killers, he is studying for a career in law and politics. By the end of the quest, he has become known all across the country as The Tennessee Kid, the fastest gun in the West.
Five outlaws, led by ruthless killer, Lige Lovell, rob the bank of Clarkesville, Tennessee to get money to buy a large Texas ranch. They escape and take Jake’s mother, Mary, hostage. Jake and his father, Sheriff Sheldon Jordan, find her three days later. She has been violated and murdered.
The wise and courageous school teacher had struck back at her killers with her only weapons - her wits. In a brilliant deception, she told her captors that her husband and her son would track them to the ends of the earth. “You will know them, she said, “because they have bright red hair.” After the killers left her for dead, Mary Jordan used charcoal from the fireplace to scrawl their names and descriptions on the wooden floor, along with her farewell message to her husban