Ben Pope and Rick Kilbane are as different as day and night. A miner's son, Ben is an awkward, earnest kid with no money and lots of hard luck. Rick is the wild, troublemaking son son of Ulysses Kilbane, a professional gambler and the fastest gun in town. Ulysses kills as easily as he shuffles a deck of cards. It looks as though Rick is a chip off the old block until Ben Pope pins on a sheriff's badge and the blood brothers start down the road to the ultimate showdown - a final test of friendship and loyalty. Powerful and absorbing, BLOOD BROTHERS is a taut, sterling adventure by a master craftsman of the Western novel.