When Clint Adams catches lead in his shooting arm, he heads to a Colorado sanitarium to have a legitimate sawbones fix the damage. After all, a slow-on-the-draw Gunsmith is a dead Gunsmith. But when hulking maniac Solomon Reyes makes a bloody escape from the sanitarium, there's only one man—with one good arm—who can take him down...
J.R. Roberts (Robert J. Randisi) is an American author who writes in the Detective and Western genres. He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories. Booklist magazine said he "may be the last of the pulp writers."
He co-founded and edited Mystery Scene magazine and co-founded the American Crime Writers League. He founded The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981, where he created the Shamus Award.
2013: Mr. Randisi received the President's Award (which recognizes a major career contribution to excellence in Western literature) from the ReadWest Foundation. Watch a video interview with Mr. Randisi where he talks about The Gunsmith among other interesting topics.