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RUSTLER’S RANGE as by Billy Hall A Black Horse Western from Hale, November 2009 Tad Strong had made a bold attempt to capture the outlaw king in his own domain. Everything had gone dreadfully wrong. Now he was pinned down, surrounded, and hopelessly outnumbered. Tad retreated to the wall, propping himself against it. He was suddenly overwhelmed with the constant barrage of bullets, splintering...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
THE TRAILSMAN #337: SILVER SHOWDOWN as by Jon Sharpe Signet, November 2009 When Fargo hits the little desert town of Las Vegas, he knows that the nearby silver strikes are filling the town with opportunities of every shape, size, and price. But when he signs on with an old frontier buddy to guard shipments from the mines to the town, he gets pulled into a fight not just against bandits, but against...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
ALWAYS THE GUNS as by Matt James A Black Horse Western from Hale, November 2009 A murder charge followed by a desperate flight and pursuit halfway across the West for two innocent young ranchers – could fate be more brutal? Darien Pell and Slim Carroway are soon to find out during an odyssey which takes them from the once-peaceful East to the wilds of old Texas … with a vengeful posse...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
As Leisure officially publish the fourth in Robert J. Randisi’s Bounty Hunter books in a few days, I thought I’d post a series review I wrote some time ago after reading all five books one after the other. THE BOUNTY HUNTER #1: DOUBLE THE BOUNTY by Robert J. Randisi Leisure, August 2008 first published as by Joshua Randall PaperJacks, July 1987 Decker’s name was cleared moments before...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
TRAIL OF THE BURNED MAN by Thomas McNulty A Black Horse Western from Hale, November 2009 When Rafe Morgan rides into a Wyoming town called Twisted Oak he gets into a saloon brawl and horribly disfigures an outlaw named Dutch Williams. Vowing revenge, Dutch and his men pillage the town and take two hostages, including the marshal’s daughter. Rafe joins Deputy U.S. Marshal Ethan O’Hara and...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
PONY SOLDIERS #1: SLAUGHTER AT BUFFALO CREEK by Chet Cunningham Leisure, 1987 White Eagle was on the warpath, killing, looting and raping his way across the territory. No one was safe – not even Captain Colt Harding’s wife and son. They were killed and mutilated; his four-year-old daughter was captured by the fierce Comanche warrior. Burning with hatred, and thirsting for revenge, Harding...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
My latest interview is with an author who has had a very impressive number of books published (with more to come), mainly in his homeland of Australia, some of which have been published in America too. These days Hale, in England, publishes his westerns under their Black Horse Western banner. The man in question is Keith Hetherington, so over to Keith… First I want to thank you for agreeing...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
SWEEP OF FURY As by Dempsey Clay A Black Horse Western from Hale, October 2009 Killer Jimmy Tucker wanted to die. ‘Do it now, Gant,’ he begged the stone-faced lawman. ‘Don’t let ‘em swing me off their gallows. Just shoot me now!’ He was pleading with the wrong man. The Marshals’ Manual was Gant’s bible. ‘The law says you’re to hang, Tucker,’...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
THE SPANISH BIT SAGA #16: FORT DE CHASTAIGNE by Don Coldsmith Bantam, December 1991 Wise old medicine man, White Fox, and his impressionable son, Red Horse, have agreed to guide Captain LeFever of Fort de Chastaigne to Santa Fe, in his quest to establish trade relations between the French and the Spanish. But their destination proves to be an elusive one; Baptiste DuBois, the vicious leader of a band...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CORD as by Owen Rountree Ballantine, April 1982 Cord is tough – an outlaw, a bank robber, fast, and deadly with guns. This time Cord and his female partner in crime, Chi, are on the run – in two different directions. One of Cord’s old-time lawbreaking buddies needs a favour – and for Cord it’s a chance to settle an old score in a town that’s being overrun by the...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
THE TRAILSMAN #336: UTAH OUTLAWS as by Jon Sharpe Signet, October 2009 After Fargo takes a job protecting a stagecoach, he ends up facedown in the dirt. When he comes to, a man is dead, the money is stolen, and an entire town blames Fargo. But a beautiful backwoods nurse knows Fargo was drugged, and Fargo suspects that someone set him up for a fall. Now he has to find out who’s trying to heap...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
THE STAKED PLAINS as by Billy Moore A Black Horse Western from Hale, October 2009 When buffalo-hide hunter, Quentin McLeod, rescues Carlotta Mainord from Comanche raiders, their struggle is still far from over. They must face further hostility from the Indians, flash floods and white brigands, only to find themselves in even greater danger when they arrive in the apparent safety of New Mexico. Carlotta...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
THE BATTLE FOR SKILLERN TRACT as by Matt Laidlaw A Black Horse Western from Hale, October 2009 When desperate ex-Confederate officer Zac Hunter rides into Nacogdoches, he has his mind set on bank robbery. What he finds when he walks into the bank is a robbery already in progress and town marshal Dan McCrae dying from gunshot wounds. Hunter is accused of murder by councillor Morgan Jarrow, then abruptly...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
DEATH GROUND By Ed Gorman Leisure, November 2009 The bank’s been robbed, two men are dead, and there’s a $1,000 reward on the head of a mountain man called Kriker. Leo Guild is just as eager as anyone to collect the bounty. But he also knows—from personal experience—the law has been wrong before. He wants to hear Kriker’s side of the story before making any rash judgments....
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
IRON EYES MAKES WAR as by Rory Black A Black Horse Western from Hale, October 2009 The infamous bounty hunter, Iron Eyes, is forced to chase the wanted outlaw Joe Brewster down into an arid desert even though he has been badly wounded in a showdown with Brewster’s brothers. Losing his pony, Iron Eyes is forced to follow on foot. To his surprise, he discovers an oasis in a valley. Iron Eyes trails...
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