The Devil's Blood

From the back cover: Big Tappan Kittery had learned to kill in the War. Killing became a nightmare, but the end of the war was not like waking up, because the nightmare didn't end. The bloodshed continued around Kittery like a plague, with Arizona Territory as its breeding ground...and the Desperados Eight as its breeders. There was only one way for Kittery to stop the killing...Take down the Devil. With his seventh novel, The Devil's Blood, our author Kirby Jonas has put himself shoulder to shoulder with not only the greatest Western writers of all time, but in our opinion the greatest writers. Period. Jonas has developed his main character, Tappan Kittery, into the type of a character that anyone with any spirit of adventure would love to ride with, and he has woven this lawman's trail into a twisted web that the most jaded of readers will love.

About the Author

Kirby Frank Jonas was born in Bozeman, Montana. He lived along a once-remote road in a rambling vee in the mountains known as Bear Canyon, where cattle range gave way to spruce and fir, and the wild country was forever ingrained in him. It was there he gained his love of the Old West, listening late at night to his daddy tell stories and sing Western ballads, and watching television Westerns such as Gunsmoke, The Virginian and The Big Valley, and listening to a well-worn long playing record of Davy Crockett. Jonas next lived on a remote farm in the middle of Civil War battlefield country near Broad Run, Virginia. That was followed by a move to Shelley, Idaho, where he completed all of his school years, wrote his first book in the sixth grade and his second as a senior in high school. He has since written six published novels and two which are forthcoming, one of which was co-authored by his older brother, Jamie. He is currently co-authoring a novel entitled Yaqui Gold. His partner is none other than his hero, Clint Walker. Besides writing novels, Jonas also paints wildlife and life in the West. He has done all of his cover art and hundreds of other pieces. He is a songwriter and guitar player and singer of old Western ballads and trail songs. He is the author of the now-famous poem written for the September 11, 2001 tragedy, "A Tear Fell." Jonas enjoys the joking title given to him by his friends, "The Renaissance Cowboy." After living in Arizona to research his first two books, and traveling through nine countries in Europe, to get his glimpse of the world, Jonas settled in Pocatello, Idaho. He has made a living fighting forest fires for the Bureau of Land Management in five western states; worked for the Idaho Fish and Game Department; been a security guard and a guard for Wells Fargo in Phoenix, Arizona. He was employed as an officer for the Pocatello City Police and currently works as a city firefighter. He and his wife, Debbie, have four children, Cheyenne Kaycee, Jacob Talon, Clay Logan and Matthew Morgan.

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