Captain Gallant #4

Captain Gallant investigates a mystery plaguing the ancient walled city of Mara-Kesh—reports of supernatural terrors that have the local merchants terrified—but discovers the real danger lurking beneath the ruins: a smuggling operation using an underground water-cove to traffic in black-market medicinals. When Cuffy and a young companion stumble onto the smugglers' operation, they find themselves trapped, and Captain Gallant must lead his Legionnaires into battle to stop the criminals and save his friends.

After tough campaigns in the northern foothills, Captain Gallant's legionnaires find refuge and good cheer at the newly opened Flame Club, but the Captain grows suspicious when his men seem unusually well-informed about military movements—and discovers the club's beautiful dancer may be the leak he's searching for. With a clever trap set and the guerillas closing in on the fort itself, Captain Gallant must outwit both the raiders and the woman caught between two worlds.

A desert patrol led by the determined Legare finds itself cut off from the fort after a brutal encounter with hostile riders leaves their commanding officer dead. As the men battle mirages, sandstorms, and dwindling hope across two hundred merciless miles, Legare must hold his fracturing unit together while the desert itself becomes their deadliest enemy. With comrades falling one by one, the fate of the Lost Patrol hangs by a thread in this tale of survival and sacrifice.

When a patient comes to Doc Sorebones complaining of a terrible memory, the good doctor prescribes a rather clever solution that turns the tables on a deadbeat debtor. It's a quick-witted bit of medical humor that proves sometimes the best remedy is a little ironic justice.