"The Reckoning," written by Ginny Berry, author of "Wild Horseracer's Race," is a fast moving, hard hitting western. Mark, an eight-year-old boy witnesses his father being shot down in cold blood. Mark makes a vow to find and kill the man who did this to his dad. For ten years Mark planned on how to even the score with the cowardly man who shot down his father. He learned to hand a gun and his fists and he was motivated by hate. When Mark turned eighteen he contacted two of his friends and they went on a man hunt to locate Joseph Buckley, the killer, and all of them had killing on their mind.