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Zusatztext Praise for the novels of Ralph Compton “Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore.”— Publishers Weekly “Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey…thrilling stories of Western legend.”— The Huntsville Times (AL) “If you like Louis L’Amour! you’ll love Ralph Compton.”— Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX) Informationen zum Autor Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail , was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. David Robbins has been a writer for more than twenty-five years, publishing under a variety of pseudonyms. He is the author of Badlanders and has written more than a dozen successful titles in the Ralph Compton series. Klappentext The USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series continues as a lawman goes up against a gang of uncommon criminals... When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine! it's only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader! Cestus Calloway! are a different breed of outlaw. In fact! Cestus is known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies! distributing his loot to those less fortunate! raining stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that weren't too good to be true! this gang holds to one important rule: steal but don't kill… All Alpine's Marshal! Boyd Cooper! wants is a nice retirement! not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However! when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood! he doesn't have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake! so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They're mad enough to break their own no kill rule! and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started… More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print! “Was it you who followed me?” THE IMMORTAL COWBOY This is respectfully dedicated to the “American Cowboy.” His was the saga sparked by the turmoil that followed the Civil War, and the passing of more than a century has by no means diminished the flame. True, the old days and the old ways are but treasured memories, and the old trails have grown dim with the ravages of time, but the spirit of the cowboy lives on. In my travels—to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona—I always find something that reminds me of the Old West. While I am walking these plains and mountains for the first time, there is this feeling that a part of me is eternal, that I have known these old trails before. I believe it is the undying spirit of the frontier calling me, through the mind’s eye, to step back into time. What is the appeal of the Old West of the American frontier? It has been epitomized by some as the dark and bloody period in American history. Its heroes—Crockett, Bowie, Hickok, Earp—have been reviled and criticized. Yet the Old West lives on, larger than life. It has become a symbol of freedom, when there was always another mountain to climb and another river to cross; when a dispute between two men was settled not with expensive lawyers, but with fists, knives, or guns. Barbaric? Maybe. But some things never change. When the cowboy rode into the pages of American history, he left behind a legacy that lives within the hearts of us all. —Ralph Compton Chapter 1 Cestus Calloway sauntered into the Alpine Bank and Trust Company as if he owned it. Which was remarkable, the people in the bank would later tell a journalist for ...
