Ralph Compton Blood on the Prairie

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 Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others. Tony Healey is the author of the Harper and Lane mystery series, featuring Detective Jane Harper and Ida Lane, a survivor with a gift for reading the dead. The Harper and Lane series has been favorably reviewed by authors Blake Crouch, Mark Edwards, and by Publishers Weekly . Hope's Peak and Storm's Edge are available from Thomas & Mercer. Healey independently published the crime novel Not for Us , the young-adult thriller Past Dark , the science fiction series Far from Home, and is currently at work on a Western. Klappentext A notorious gunslinger finds his vow to reform tested in this exciting installment in Ralph Compton's bestselling Gunfighter series. Twenty years ago, Sherman Knowles was known as a fearsome gunslinger with an itchy trigger finger and a hot temper. Now he resides in peaceful Elam Hollow, and his gunslinging days are far behind him. He hasn't fired a weapon in over a decade and is happy for that to be the end of the matter. But when he receives a visit from his brother's widow, asking for his help in finding his kidnapped niece, Sherman is left with no choice but to pick up his guns once more and head out into the wilderness to rescue her before it's too late! Series Overview: Tales of the American West from national bestselling author Ralph Compton. Leseprobe Chapter One On his last visit to Broken Bow, Sherman's brother, Jed, had been in full health. Tall, broad shouldered and lean from years of working the land, Jed possessed the kind of wiry strength only a man who worked with his hands possessed. In his travels, Sherman had encountered all kinds. Men who looked dumber than an ox but were gifted with a genius intellect; women whose features were hardened by tough lives and tough conditions but could sing with such sweetness as to make even the most hard-hearted son of a gun weep with sorrow. His brother, Jed, was just so deceptive. The man possessed not an ounce of fat on his entire body; he was all bone, muscle and sinew. The last time Sherman had seen him, Jed's hair had been beginning to thin at the crown, but that was the only thing that aged him. He looked far younger than his years. That was not the case now. The sickness had drained him. It had aged him, hollowing out his cheeks, darkening his once bright eyes. His hair had turned gray and all but fallen out. His once strong and sturdy frame had become little more than a withered husk. Jed was all paper-thin, dry skin stretched tight over bone. His hands, which had once been big and viselike, were elongated claws that could barely grip a spoon with which to eat-and Jed had stopped doing that three days ago. Sherman looked at his own hand, and his prosthetic appendage. The hook where his right hand had once been. Our hands tell our story, he thought. Sherman peeked in at Jed through the open doorway. His brother lay on a cot, sleeping soundly, hands clasped on the chasm of his stomach. He'd grown so thin that his top row of teeth jutted out, pronounced in a way that Sherman had never seen before. Hattie took his hat and jacket from him. "He's been that way a few days now. Just sleeping." "Will he know I'm here?" Sherman asked. "Oh, sure. He'll wake up and talk to you," Hattie assured him. "Just don't expect too much. As you can imagine . . . he tires ever...

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Compton, Tony Healey
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.09.2021
• EAN: 9780593333891
• ISBN: 978-0-593-33389-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 168 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Gunfighter; The Gunfighter Series
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature