The Horse Thieves, and Other Tales of the New West

In an alternate American West both eerily familiar and vastly different from our own, a man's car is his steed. Years ago, Yoshimitsu Automobiles purchased all the struggling car companies and formed Consolidated Motor Corp or CMC. Any "horse" worth its shoes is made by the conglomerate, which owns "ranches" across the country. With a stranglehold on the market, CMC does what it wants, when it wants, how it wants - all at the direction of the company's vainglorious president, Darwin E. Hayes

This is the world where Crawford - a cynical gun-for-hire - lives, works and has learned to survive. It's not an easy life in the dusty, cutthroat towns of the west, but it's one where Crawford is fortunate enough to have a roof over his head, a beautiful and willful woman at his side, and a trusty horse on his hitching post - a CMC Colt.