It's 1951, and the last place in America any sane man wishes to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm (Colored) in Mississippi. It's the Old South at its most brutal -- a place of violence, racial terror, and even more horrific rumors. Of the few who make the journey, even fewer return. But two men will come to Thebes: Sam Vincent, a former prosecuting attorney who accepts a job to investigate a disappearance; and Earl Swagger, veteran of the mob wars in Hot Springs. Both will struggle not only for their own survival, but with deeper questions: What does a man do when confronted with such evil? Can it be remedied? Rectified? Redirected? Reformed? Or must it just be destroyed, and if so, by whom? Drawing on the oldest myths, classical and modern literature, popular culture at its most vigorous, and the Golden Age gun writers of the 1950s, Pale Horse Coming is a stunning story of violence and retribution, written with the same high velocity of Hunter's classic thrillers.

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