Gatling was a master armorer, a dead shot and an expert in the art of death. Armed with the latest automatic weapons and paid in gold to test them on living bodies, he was perhaps 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. He would need all of his skill to take on...

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 …