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Author
Series
Luke Jensen volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ambushed and left for dead, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen is taken in by a Georgia farmer and his beautiful daughter who nurse him back to health, but when fate takes a tragic turn, Luke, driven by vengeance, becomes the greatest bounty hunter who ever lived.
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"After an ill-advised indiscretion with his greedy landlady, Longarm is forced to defend himself against her jealous husband. But after the gun smoke clears, the woman accuses Longarm of assaulting her and murdering her husband. Turns out, the landlord's family is rich, and his wily widow is determined to enjoy his inheritance--while an innocent man dangles from the gallows. Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is determined not to take this lying down--heck,...
Author
Series
Savage Texas volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In Hangtree, Texas, any other day could be your last. For, on the heels of the Civil War, Hangtree is drawing gamblers, fast women and faster gunmen. Amidst the brawls and shooting, the land-grabbing and card-sharking, two men barely hold the boomtown together: Yankee Sam Heller and Texan Johnny Cross. Heller and Cross can't stand the sight of each other. And Hangtree needs them more than ever. Now, a Comanche named Red Hand leads a horde of warriors...
Author
Series
Shootist volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Following the bloody shootout that killed J.B. Books, Gillom Rogers takes the gun fighters matching Remington pistols and sets out for adventure.
Author
Series
Savage Texas volume 5
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On the trail to Hangtree, a gang of bandits give chase to a teenage gunslinger. Young Bill is bracing for the end when the crack of a Winchester scatters the bandits. Sam Heller, Hangtree lawman, has saved another life. And Bill will beg Heller to save one more. Bill rode in from East Texas, where Cullen Baker, the original quick-draw artist, fights a life-and-death battle with a corrupt robber baron for control of the Torrent River. Bill came seeking...
Author
Series
Hell's half acre volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Those were the last words uttered by a dying man who was the boomtown's most recent sheriff. Rail-thin and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Jess not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff, inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hell's Half Acre, the wide-open, deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier. Hell's Half Acre is home to Kurt Koenig and his gang-run...
8) Cold as hell
Author
Series
Black Badge novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the West, there are worse things to fear than bandits and outlaws. Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley's sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banish them from the mortal realm for good. He didn't choose this life. No. He didn't choose life at all. Shot dead in a gunfight many years ago, now he's stuck in purgatory, serving the whims of the White Throne to avoid falling to Hell. Not quite undead, though...
9) Dark horses
Author
Publisher
Signet , an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trouble follows horse trader Will Summers as soon as he sets foot in Dark Horses, Mexico. A party of men is intent on hanging Summers, believing him to be a horse thief, but not before they take him to their boss--Ansil Swann, the very man Summers is delivering four horses to. Will is saved from the hangman's noose when the men are waylaid by Ansil's beautiful wife, Bailey. Only Bailey has an agenda of her own, one that lands Will right in the middle...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the days after the Civil War, a solitary rider travelled the open frontier--but he wasn't alone, for Death seemed to travel with him. Or maybe it was the Devil himself who gave him the lethal pistol shot that earned him the name 'Death's Acolyte.' And when the stranger with the scarred face, who calls himself Ken Casey, rode into the peaceful Texas town of Wardell, maybe peace--for his own ravaged soul--was all he wanted. But in Wardell, all hell...
Author
Series
Gunsmith volume 344
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The GUNSMITH takes on a gang of back-shooters face-to-face-- When the Graves gang back-shoots the town sheriff of Guardian, Missouri, the lawman's old friend, Clint Adams, pins on the badge to take up the flight."--fictiondb website.
14) Bloody Sunday
Author
Series
Luke Jensen volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Tracking down the worst outlaws, Luke Jensen finally finds Gloria Jennings, who is accused of murdering two of her husbands, but instead of bringing her to justice, he finds himself helping her face down rival ranchers and other threats as he comes to believe in her innocence.
Author
Series
Mountain man volume 4
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Revenge of the Mountain Man: Smoke Jensen returns from a cattle buying trip to discover that his wife has been shot by outlaws, and is determined to track down her attackers.
Vengeance of the Mountain Man: Just when it seemed that Smoke Jensen's life had settled down to something resembling normal ... He's all but forgotten the vicious young gunfighter who called himself Sundance. Smoke had hoped to teach that twisted kid a lesson by shooting off...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While a battle rages between two outlaw gangs in a remote Utah canyon, Jim struggles to rescue Helen Herrick, who has been captured and held for ransom. Robbers' Roost tells the story of their personal struggle to escape the clutches of the murderous outlaws while simultaneously safeguarding their passion, one that is not likely to survive the beautiful, yet deadly, terrain and people of the old American West"--
17) Springfield 1880
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jed Foster is more than a thief. He's a traitor. With a handful of murderous rogues, he's run off with four wagons containing new Springfield 1880 rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder whether it's Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that's the least of Foster's...
18) Prairie fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen is called to track down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder... Johnstone Country. Ready, Aim, Kill. CAUTION- CONTENTS MAY BE FLAMMABLE In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting...
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