A hired gun delivers frontier justice on a colony world in this exciting novel from “an imaginative writer with a director’s eye” (Aaron Allston, New York Times–bestselling author of Mercy Kill: Star Wars Legends).
The man called Twelve is a hired gun, taking his laser pistol from planet to planet, renting his services out to the highest bidder.
He finds himself on Glycon-Prime, a new colony at the edge of space. On the hunt for work, Twelve blows into a small frontier town—only to find a massacre.
The survivors? A trio of young children, devastated by the murder of their families. They are hellbent on hiring the gunslinger to get revenge on the leader of the vicious mutants responsible—the man known only as The Serpent’s Head . . .
Bryan Young works across many different media. His work as a writer and producer has been called "filmmaking gold" by The New York Times. He's also published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He's been a regular contributor for the Huffington Post, StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider magazine, SYFY, /Film, and was the founder and editor in chief of the geek news and review site Big Shiny Robot! He co-authored Robotech: The Macross Saga RPG in 2019 and in 2020 he wrote a novel in the BattleTech Universe called Honor's Gauntlet. It won the League of Utah Writers’ Diamond Quill for 2021, reserved for the best book of the year written by a Utah Writer. Follow him on Twitter @swankmotron or visit www.swankmotron.com.