Image description: Front cover of Backed to the Wall with a rugged canyon scene. 

About Backed to the Wall: In the Dakota Territory of the 1870s, outlaws-schooled in cruelty during the War Between the States-roam and prey upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their trail. And the line between outlaw and lawman is often blurred. Some of those sworn to protect the helpless might exploit them instead. Some of those deemed hard cases might yet redeem themselves. Backed to the Wall plunges a lawman and an outlaw into a bloody battle that only one of them can survive-if the Indian raiders terrorizing the local homesteaders and cattlemen don't kill them first.

About the Author: C. M. Wendelboe entered the law enforcement profession when he was discharged from the Marines as the Vietnam war was winding down. In the 1970s he worked in South Dakota. He moved to Gillette, Wyoming, and found his niche, where he remained a sheriff's deputy for over twenty-five years. In addition, he was a longtime firearms instructor at the local college and within the community. During his thirty-eight-year career in law enforcement he had served successful stints as police chief, policy adviser, and other supervisory roles for several agencies. Yet he always has felt most proud of "working the street" in the Wild West. He was a patrol supervisor when he retired to pursue his true vocation as a fiction writer. C.M. Wendelboe now lives and writes in Cheyenne, Wyoming.