This Way to the Gladiator Show

This Way to the Gladiator Show, the third installment in The Muerte Sequence, is now available for the first time in both electronic and print editions. I say first time as it's the first time it's appeared in either format solo.  It originally appeared in the electronic version of The Muerte Sequence collection in 2012, which didn't stay available very long.  It also had a different title then: Gladius or, Marty Robbins Doesn't Play Here Anymore.

So, why change the title and do a solo version?  Well, to complete the trilogy of standalones that includes The Reverend's Powder and Consecrated Highways.  In addition, I wanted to change the title so, this gave me a chance to do both.

Like its predecessors, the print version is a short chapbook so be aware you're getting a small paperback if you pick it up.

Included in this version is the story Door to Ever, which tells the story of that guy on the cover up there.

Anyway, the summary:

Twenty years since the events of CONSECRATED HIGHWAYS. Thirty since those that transpired in THE REVEREND'S POWDER. Seems like a long time.

But time means nothing to the Great Mother of Death. Once she chooses you, she'll have you, regardless of the passage of time.

In Baja Mexico, a bus of Christian volunteers travel toward a home for poor and disadvantaged people to perform works of mercy. On the way, the bus is stopped by a group of local bandits and militiamen. Bandits in the employ of the local drug cartel.

Soon, the volunteers find themselves pitted in gladiatorial combat for the entertainment of the cartel. Entertainment that demands blood is spilled as an offering to the Mother of Death. Among them, is seventeen-year-old Scott, who has more of his dad, former hitman turned holy man Matthew, in him than he knows.

Killing runs in the family. And the Mother of Death may have found her best recruit.

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