Ralph Compton Shot to Hell

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 the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Riders series, and the Trail Drive series, among others. Jackson Lowry is the Western pen name for Robert E. Vardeman, author of numerous novels. Vardeman received the 2017 Western Fictioneers Lifetime Achievement Award. Western titles include Sonora Noose, Great West Detective Agency, and the Western trilogy Punished. He was born in Texas and has lived in the wilds of New Mexico most of his life. Klappentext A deadly marksman is on the hunt to find his missing sister in this exhilarating new Ralph Compton Western. One terrible day, fifteen-year-old Leif Gunnarson comes home to find his family home on fire and a gruesome scene inside: his parents are tied up, on the brink of death among the hellish flames, and his sister is nowhere to be found. His father can barely gasp a name: Simkins. And with that, Leif has his life's mission-to track down Luther Simkins, notorious outlaw and gang leader, and find his sister. Along the way, Leif finds a temporary home in Wyoming Bob's Wild West Show. He has an innate talent with firearms but needs to hone those skills until he can outshoot anyone, even Simkins. Touring the West as the star performer known as Trickshot, Leif finally gets wind of an outlaw who could lead him to his sister. It will be the most important showdown of his life-but will his sharpshooting be a match for the shocking tricks the outlaw has up his sleeve? Leseprobe Chapter One Six gunmen," Wyoming Bob Jenks called at the top of his lungs. He thrust an arm high enough in the air to be sure every eye was on him. He need not have worried. The gathered crowd hardly let out a breath as it pressed closer, intent on the show. "Six men, all steely eyed and possessing nerves icier than the Yukon winter. Every last one of them is a marksman of the first water. They never miss. And they are all facing . . . Leif Johann Gunnarson, otherwise known throughout these great United States and across the vast Atlantic Ocean to all the crowned heads of Europe-" Wyoming Bob paused again to build suspense. "Known as Trickshot!" A cheer went up from the crowd. Leif Gunnarson strode out into the street, shoulders pulled back and chin held high. He wore a ten-gallon hat of the whitest felt. A ring of hammered Mexican silver conchas circled the crown. Wrapped around his right arm writhed a rattlesnake skin. The long rattles hung down and clicked ominously as he moved. Given enough whiskey, he'd tell the story of how he killed that western diamondback rattler, one shot through the mouth. His second shot tore the length of its body, skinning it so he could wrap the distinctively patterned hide around his arm. Leif halted in the middle of the street, hands resting on the butts of his matched pistols, etched elaborately and worth more than anyone in this miserable town would ever pay. As Wyoming Bob continued to laud his reputation, Leif whirled about. His bleached-white buckskin fringe made small snapping noises as he moved. A rehearsed movement with his six-shooter caused the fringe on his right arm to crack like a whip and the snake's rattles to underscore the deadly move. This always brought the crowd around. Everyone stared at him now. He continued his slow advance into the center of the circle formed by the townspeople. His elaborately tooled boots, crafted by the finest boot maker in Mexico, kicked up delicate clouds of dust. With a practiced eye, Leif stopped whe...

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Compton, Jackson Lowry
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780593333730
• ISBN: 978-0-593-33373-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 171 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Gunfighter Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature