Publisher's Synopsis
""PAYBACK IS HELL"" is Rand's third book in the Evil Stryker Series. It is a follow on to his first two successful novels, ""LEFT TO DIE"" and ""CROSS CUT."" His next book in the series, ""IT WAS TO DIE FOR"" will be available next year. Major Neville Stryker, returning in this third book of the series, is hired by George Hearst, a man who struck it rich in the Comstock Lode, to collect on a poker debt - ""The San Francisco Examiner."" Hearst wants to give the newspaper to his son, William Randolph Hearst. The debtor, the current newspaper owner, may not survive Stryker's unique skills of persuasion. The years and the elements have worn away some of the stamped letters on his saddle skirt, ""Major Neville Stryker,"" leaving behind what many people feel is a name more fitting - EVIL STRYKER.
