If you are interested in learning about HOW to become a Buckskinner, trap beavers, live in a tipi, go to Rendezvous, then this is the book for you. It proclaims to be the beginners guide to shooting black powder firearms, and it does do that, but it is so much more with fine pictures, diagrams, and the history is right on target. A good read if historical black powder firearms are your thing! In the words of a Mountain Man, "It shines, it really does!" Beaver Belly, Free Trapper.

The Gulf Coast of Texas. Deadly deals are made here...and deadlier secrets are hidden...

It was a nice, clean scam, John Rodrigue thought. Sink a boat way out in the Gulf so the owner could collect on the insurance, and pick up two thousand bucks for himself-easy money for a one-eyed salvager with a streak of piracy. After all, with two grand in his pocket and Sandy-a free-spirited and seductive barmaid-in his bed, life looks pretty darn sweet. Then Rodrigue learns that the boat was part of a dirty deal involving drug smuggling and something even dirtier: politics. Even with his glass eye, Rodrigue can see trouble coming...serious trouble.