East Jesus, Nevada

Native American children vanish from a white man's Christian Gospel mission, and two fast friends - brought together by passion and persistence during Nevada's 1880s western expansion - are hell-bent on finding them.

Meet W. W. Ronin, a former Episcopal minister turned bounty hunter, and his imposing but congenial buddy, Carson City deputy sheriff Marcus T. "Dustsucker" Slade, in the first of the W. W. Ronin series of Westerns. Together, the men fight graft and greed with pure guts as they wind their way through the Washoe Valley to solve the mystery of the missing Indian children. And along the way, they discover not only a faster friendship, but a deeper meaning to life in the wild, wild West.

From Two Bears Books: "Townsley is no stranger to the places his characters inhabit: Reno, Carson City, Virginia City and Lake Tahoe. He raised his children on the Comstock, from 1984 through 1993, as pastor and head of staff of the First Presbyterian Church in Carson City."