Jack Hazen

Terror on the Deseret Trail Jack Hazen

Reuben Taz, son of the late serial killer Asmodeus Taz, vows to track down, torture and kill those responsible for the death of his father. Like father, like son. Reuben Taz is also a psychotic, cannibalistic, and sexually deviant serial killer. Reuben Taz discovers information pertaining to the demise of his father via a factual dime novel entitled "Hornswoggled at Hell Creek."Hannah Monroe, the beautiful paleontologist from Philadelphia, embarks on another expedition to recover dinosaur fossils, this time in the Deseret Territory. She is joined by an eclectic group that includes an exotic Arapaho princess, a transgender Pinkerton detective, an enigmatic mountain man who is owner of a secret gold mine, a very short former sheriff and circus clown, a crippled Irish leprechaun, a sanctimonious fire and brimstone preacher, and the prodigal dog, among others. Reuben Tax acquires his own followers and pursues the expedition. Mark Twain, Porter Rockwell, and other notable personalities join the adventure. Outlaw gangs, Indians running wild, giants, and Mormons seeking plural wives complicate matters. The carnage the expedition encounters on the Deseret Trail is beyond their belief in the depth of evil man is capable of. As Reuben Taz leaves a wake of corpses on the trail to avenge his father, those being pursued ponder whether a serial killer is redeemable and worthy only of extermination.