U.S. Deputy Marshall Custis Long is in the New Mexico Territory trying to stop a band of renegade Apache indians. But is it really indians who have been robbing, killing and generally causing trouble? 189th novel in the “Longarm” series,...
Previously published as GUN TRUTH
A Spur Award-winning Author
Tom Prine figured that a stint as deputy in a backwash town like Claybank would give him a nice rest. Until, in the space of just a few days, arson, kidnapping and murder turn...
In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too,...
Even though he knows Lily Gail Baxter is the bait in a trap set by the outlaw Gallagher Gang, Longarm cannot resist her charms, and the only way to escape is a bloody...
Blake Coleman is old enough to know that acting on impulse causes nothing but a heap of trouble. But when trouble’s a western-hat-wearing blonde with slim legs that go on forever, what’s a man to do? Wanting the sweet girl next door is just...
Itching for a challenge, Count Frederick von Hausen sails from Germany to hunt down Smoke Jensen. And with a party of the toughest hardcases in the West, von Hausen shadows Smoke into Wyoming's high Rockies. But Smoke Jensen is the last mountain...
James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression....
EVEN BAD MEN CAN DO GOOD.
Lucius Stark is just about the meanest mongrel in West Texas. But when Stark grows too fond of a woman he is hired to kill in a range war, his client shoots him in the back. He is saved by the very ranchers he...
Longarm is guarding Harmony Drake on a train bound for Colorado, where the murdering sidewinder has a date with the gallows. When Drake bellyaches about feeling ill, Longarm makes the mistake of taking him off the train to see a doctor. Next...