Synopses & Reviews
FAST GUN IN WILD TIMES It was the 1870s—Jesse and Frank James led daring raids on banks and trains. Doc Holliday’s name struck dread in the hearts of men, and Wild Bill Hickok played poker with bullets in the hole. A young killer named Billy the Kid was hunted by a determined lawman, and a General named Custer took the Seventh Cavalry into Dakota Territory. One man rode this untamed frontier like a shadow of death. His name was Nathan Stone, and he had learned to kill on the vengeance trail. He would have stopped after settling the score with his parents’ savage slayers. But when you are the greatest gunfighter of all, there is no peace or resting place. And it was Nathan Stone’s destiny to fight for survival against the most famed and feared figures from Texas to the Black Hills on both sides of the law. More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books in Print
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“If you like Louis L’Amour, you’ll love Ralph Compton.”—
Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)
“A writer in the tradition of Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey.” —The Huntsville Times (AL)
Review
“A writer in the tradition of Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey.”--
Huntsville Times “If you like Louis L’Amour, you’ll love Ralph Compton.”--Quanah Tribune Chief (TX)
Synopsis
USA Today Bestselling Phenomenon Lieutenant Steve Stryker has a score to settle with Rake Pierce, who's running guns to the Apaches. Pierce left him a scarred man and ruined his life. Now it's payback time...
Synopsis
In this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series, the deepest scars are the ones on a man's soul...
When Lieutenant Steve Stryker learns Rake Pierce is running guns to the Apaches, he sees his chance for vengeance. Pierce disfigured Stryker's face while escaping from custody, which led to the loss of all Stryker held dear, including his fiancee. Now all Stryker has is his Army command, and his only purpose is to hunt Apaches.
But living for vengeance is no way to live, and despite scars that will never heal, Stryker finds himself starting to care again--for the scout who saved his life, and the woman and child he rescues from the Indians. Steve Stryker may find a reason to go on living after all--but not until he puts Pierce in the cold, hard ground...
More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print
Synopsis
BLOOD TIE IN A BLOODY LAND
Nathan Stone is a living legend in the West as a lawman, an outlaw, a gambler, and a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He has blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he plays his cards and uses his Colt .45s as best he can in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death.
Now he is riding on a course that will test his rawhide nerves and lightning draw against the likes of Doc Holliday, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, the fleeing James brothers, and the incredible John Wesley Hardin—as he heads toward a fateful rendezvous with the one gunfighter as fast and deadly as he: the teenage kid who kills like a man and is Nathan Stone’s son....
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AND THEN THERE WERE MORE. Disguised as Danny Duggin, Danielle Strange hunted down the merciless cutthroats who murdered her father. Now the feared gunslick has hung up her trademark twin Colts—and given up her secret identity—to make something out of her Texas ranch. But then a passel of hard cases rides into town and all hell breaks loose. And when the vicious gunmen kill one of Danielle’s old saddle pals, she knows it’s time for Danny Duggin to ride the vengeance trail again....
More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books in Print
About the Author
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.
As a little boy growing up in a small fishing village in Scotland, Joseph West enjoyed many happy Saturday mornings at the local cinema in the company of Roy and Gene and Hoppy. His lifelong ambition was to become a cowboy, but he was sidetracked by a career in law enforcement and journalism. He now resides with his wife and daughter in Palm Beach, Florida, where he enjoys horse riding, cowboy action shooting, and studying Western history.