The title story "With These Hands" is a powerful tale that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit, as an oil company executive finds himself the sole survivor of an Arctic plane crash. Fighting for his life against the perilous cold and looming starvation, he resists the temptation to surrender to death--only to discover a life-affirming strength he never knew he had. Vivid in scope and displaying the diverse talents of a master storyteller, the...

HELLER WITH A GUN. It was a hard land that bred hard men to hard ways. King Mabry survived by his guns. He wasn't proud of his deadly skill, nor was he ashamed. He just lived with it every hard day on the frontier. When a traveling theatrical troupe hired a ruthless killer to guide them through the Wyoming wilderness, King Mabry--his guns at the ready--set out to follow their trail, and not blizzards, nor Indians, nor the wily guide would stop...

She's more gunpowder than girl -- and the fate of the desert lies in her hands. Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mystical beasts still roam the wild and barren wastes, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinni still practice their magic. But there's nothing mystical or magical about Dustwalk, the dead-end town that Amani can't wait to escape from. Destined to wind up "wed or dead," Amani's counting on her sharpshooting skills to get her...

Gert Dooley can shoot the tail feathers off a jay at a hundred yards, but she yearns for rancher Ethan Chapman to see she's more than a crack shot. When murder strikes in Fergus, Gert forms the Ladies' Shooting Club to teach the women how to protect themselves. Asked to become sheriff, Ethan must investigate the death of his predecessor and restore order in the sleepy town. Then another person is murdered, and Ethan turns to Gert for help in the investigation....

Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes, instead, that his mission is murder, to 'eliminate' the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land, Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted.

"Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, and now the current occupant of a cell in the brutal and unforgiving Hell Gate prison. The Kid's crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down...