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Hunter's Choice

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 13:05:18 +0300

From Neil Hunter, winner of the Western Fictioneers' prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award 2020, comes a new gun-swift collection featuring some of his most popular characters!
New Novellas feature Jason Brand in THE RECKONING, where the job at hand becomes a vengeance hunt, and no mercy is shown; Seth Tyler in SETH'S LAW, in which the young marshal of Hope, Colorado, has to make a stand against a powerful enemy and even tougher odds; US Marshal Alvin LeRoy in WHITE SANDS—RED BLOOD, where the wounded marshal remains determined to see his latest manhunt through to the bitter end; and Bodie the Stalker, unleashing mayhem on a bunch of bank robbers as only he can in DEATH COMES TO JUBILATION.
Also includes the stand-alone story THE KILLING AT TELEGRAPH HILL.

LeRoy, U.S. Marshal 2

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:34:47 +0200

Latimer was a tough Texas town. But things got a whole heap tougher when Ralph Elphick decided he wanted the oil discovered on range owned by Callum Bascombe and his wife Abby. LeRoy slipped quietly into town but ended up taken a beating. But there was no stopping him. By the time he was through, Latimer knew the fury of one man's fight for justice ... US Marshal Alvin LeRoy's kind of justice.

Bodie 11

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:41:21 +0300

Bodie's trek to the town of Sorrow plunged him into all kinds of trouble.
For a start, he began to have doubts as to the guilt of his prisoner, Henry Purcell. Charged with murder and posted by the law in Sorrow, it didn't seem likely that the man could have killed his business partner. As Bodie rode further north, the weather in the timberline became worse with endless snow that hampered his travel. Being Bodie he pushed on and rode into gunfire, treachery and found his way blocked by people who simply wanted him out of the way because he threatened their plans.
With his prisoner wounded and finding it hard to figure out who was who, Bodie took on all comers until he faced down the people behind Sorrow's troubles.
It took all his skill and fortitude to bring everything into the open and make his own peace by the gun he carried and used well. He wouldn't have been Bodie if he couldn't.

Ballard and McCall 6

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:56:51 +0200

Jess McCall was under threat from an unknown enemy. Then he had to face a shootout with a man he didn't know. Even then there's no peace, when he's lured into a confrontation with hired guns. Only by using his own gun-skill does he stay alive, though severely wounded.
Making it back to town, with his wounds showing infection, it suddenly falls to his partner, Chet Ballard, to step in to face the still existing threat.
Through his dogged persistence, Ballard starts to unravel the mystery behind the attempts on his friend's life, and learns that they're facing the desperate efforts of a man from McCall's past who wants nothing less than McCall's death as a way of hiding the truth of his near forgotten crime.

Bodie Meets Brand 3

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:05:17 +0300

The problems started almost as soon as Brand and Bodie accepted an assignment to track stolen weapons into Mexico for an old army friend of Brand. There was also the matter of a kidnapped young woman to complicate the mission.
Before long they had to fight off border raiders and the Apache renegades who wanted their wagonload of guns.
And even when they reached the stronghold of the man dealing in stolen weapons and risked their necks to make sure they were disabled, Brand and Bodie had to find the girl before making their way back across the treacherous desert with violent men on their trail.
The two fighting men were forced to use their deadly skills and survival instincts to simply stay alive as they headed for the border. But there was something else in them that wouldn't be denied. Neither man had any intention of leaving any of tthe enemies on their backtrail alive.

Brand 12

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:34:48 +0200

When Frank McCord of the Justice Department is kidnapped, the Attorney General calls on the one man who stands a hope in hell of finding him — the Department's toughest operative, Jason Brand.
But from the moment he accepts the assignment, Brand becomes a target for the men who are determined to stop him finding McCord. What they don't understand is that McCord is not just his boss - he's also a friend, and that makes all the difference.
Nothing less than a well-aimed bullet will stop him from saving McCord. But even when Brand does track him down, his troubles are far from over. With a violent bunch after him, and a seriously injured McCord on his hands, Brand has to outrun a relentless pursuit.
No matter how ruthless the gang is, or how big the stakes, there's one thing the bad guys fail to appreciate ... and that is Jason Brand's skill with a vengeance gun.

Halsey

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:56:50 +0200

Bryn Halsey, sheriff of Creedence, Texas, upheld the law with a firm hand. But when a brutal murder took place, he found himself faced with a real conundrum. Even as he tried to figure out who had murdered the newly-arrived Pinkerton operative, a second man was killed in the same brutal way ... and still Halsey had no clues to go on.
Then things got a sight more complicated, when Halsey himself almost became the victim of an ambush.
Someone wanted him dead, and he had a fair idea who.
That's when he started hitting back.
It was only when a second Pinkerton agent arrived that Halsey found himself with an ally. Together, they tracked down and cornered the unknown killer in a vicious storm. But who would still be on their feet when the gunsmoke cleared?
Hell, that was anyone's guess.

LeRoy, U.S. Marshal 3

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 18:41:22 +0300

It should have been a routine job for US Marshal Alvin LeRoy—escort two captured bank robbers to Yuma Territorial Prison. It turned out to be anything but.
As they'd tried to make their escape after the robbery, the outlaws ran down and crippled Daniel Machin, brother of wealthy rancher Lawrence Machin.
The Machins now wanted to take their own brand of revenge.
Followed by a trio of men determined to take his prisoners away from him, LeRoy also discovered that he had a bounty man named Lang on his trail. Lang was working for the bounty offered by Lawrence Machin.
And so simple transportation job became a nightmare for LeRoy. With enemies to every side, he had to call on every ounce of strength left in him just to keep on going. Leroy didn't have any quit in him. He was tough, determined ... relentless.

Bodie 3

Sat, 01 Oct 1994 13:32:11 +0200

Bodie was set against a powerful, ruthless landowner who wanted Angela Crown's mine and wasn't going to let one gunman stop him from getting it. That was just one of the bounty hunter's problems. There was also a beautiful, wealthy and cold-blooded whore called Beth Arling and she, too, had good reason to want Bodie dead ...

Ballard and McCall 5

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 13:05:15 +0300

On their way home from the funeral of a friend, Ballard and McCall unwittingly cross Circle-B range and find themselves mistaken for rustlers. Tensions are high and McCall is forced to defend himself when a pair of zealous cowhands bring their guns into play. One man ends up dead and another is wounded. McCall takes a bullet in the side. The Texans ride in to the local town, Jericho, to report the incident to the law. Before they know it, however, Ballard and McCall are caught up in the local problems led by Celestine Blanchard, owner of the Circle-B, her treacherous, wayward son Orrin and the underhand trickery that results in more gunplay and violence.
The Texans take more than their share of hard treatment before a bullet ridden showdown brings peace to Circle-B and the streets of Jericho – with its own personal tragedy.

Bodie and Brand 2

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:23:30 +0200

When Brand and Bodie arrive in San Francisco, searching for a kidnapped girl, The City By the Bay doesn't exactly welcome them with open arms. But danger has never stopped these two before – not even when it comes in the form of a deadly Chinese Tong determined to extend its opium empire as far as the east coast.The Tong might be ready and willing to stop anyone getting in its way, but Brand and Bodie have an ally in the shape of a friend from Brand's past – Captain Richard Hunt, a British agent from Jamaica, who sided with Brand on a previous assignment.Now all they have to do is bring the Tong, and its murderous criminal contact Milo Traeger, down.It's a tall order, but one thing is certain – San Francisco won't forget the day Brand and Bodie brought their Two Guns West.

Talman's War (A Piccadilly Publishing Western #9)

Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:33:43 +0200

Jim Talman figured he had trouble enough with drought drying up his water source and threatening his herds. That was until Philip Olsen, a man greedy for land to bolster his expansions plans, decided he wanted Talman's range. Jim soon found that talk wasn't about to solve the problem, and when the violence and killing started, he found himself backed into a corner. Being who he was, Jim refused to back down and saw that the only way to hang on to his land was to fight back. It became a struggle for survival and Olsen found he was up against a man who had no intention of quitting. No matter what was thrown in Jim's path he worked around it, took his licks, and despite being bruised and battered, he stood firm, willing to go all the way in order to survive Talman's War!

Riding the Timberline

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:32:12 +0300

Once upon a time, Will Tyrell had been the law in Madison Springs. Now he was living in self-imposed exile. Blaming himself for a tragic accident that resulted in sudden death, he took to the high mountains where he created a new life for himself catching and selling wild horses.
Tyrell accepted his new life and found a peace in the hills. It might have stayed that way if he hadn't come across an injured young woman called Cassie Marchant. Alone and hampered by a broken leg, the woman found herself in Tyrell's hands. He did what he could before moving her to the isolated cabin he called home. But that was far from the end of it – the brutal Callender clan wasn't about to give her up as easy as all that.
With no other option, Tyrell and Cassie rode off for Madison Springs with the Callender hard in pursuit. And as time went by Tyrell's personal feelings towards the courageous woman only increased. When they reached town, the Callenders finally...

The Tylers 2

Sat, 25 Nov 1995 12:33:44 +0200

A run in with the Retford bunch brought Jacob Tyler nothing but trouble and grief. He found himself running for his life, until his stubborn nature made him turn around and fight back.But then he was forced to go on the run again, falsely accused of killing a deputy US Marshal. Only one man could prove his innocence.It took a ride close to hell and back to find that man...