Breaker's Son

Ranger Captain Tom Daniels has a chance meeting with an old friend in the dusty South Texas town of Collinstown. Bob Woodard is a rogue who has crossed from one side of the law to the other as easily as he has crossed the Rio Grande while working the livestock trade along the Texas-Mexican borderlands. Tom Daniels quickly becomes embroiled in Woodard’s past transgressions as the two men are forced into a wild and deadly gun battle in the Collinstown saloon. The lives of the two old friends become intertwined in the months leading up to the Civil War as the unionist and secessionist movements pit neighbor against neighbor. Captain Daniels is quickly drawn into the violence and resulting murder of a local San Antonio rancher and his son. But Texas must fight a war on two fronts: the Comanche still threaten the western frontier. Daniels is called upon to recover the son of a friend who has been kidnapped during a Comanche raid, and there, on the vast llano estacado, all his skills as an Indian fighter and plainsman will be put to the test. A discovery made on the llano estacado and the love of a woman from San Antonio, Eliza Coffee, promise to change the captain’s life forever, but they cannot alter what fate has set in motion.Neal, Robert is the author of 'Breaker's Son', published 2007 under ISBN 9781424112166 and ISBN 1424112168.