.45-Caliber Widow Maker

.45-Caliber Widow Maker
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110110578X

A prison wagon of caged killers means hell on wheels in this thrilling western from Peter Brandvold. “When you knew how to use a .45, there were times when you couldn’t very well not use it…” Cuno Massey is determined to start a new, peaceful life. But when he comes across a prison wagon under attack, he can’t just ride on. A gang of outlaws is hell-bent on granting four hardened convicts an early release, and with two other lawmen down, the marshal is badly outnumbered. Dispensing frontier justice from the barrel of his Colt .45, Cuno does his best to even the odds and keep the murderous animals where they belong—in their cage. But the trail is long, and the gang is relentless. Looks like Cuno has just signed on for the ride of his life.

.45-Caliber Desperado

.45-Caliber Desperado
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101543876

Cuno Massey ends up on the wrong side of the law in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold... Cuno Massey killed those deputy U.S. marshals all right, but only because they were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, he faces a death sentence—until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border. Pursued by lawmen as brutal as the desperadoes he travels with, Cuno rides a bloody trail, unsure where his allegiances lie, and wondering if he was better off waiting for the gallows…

.45-Caliber Cross Fire

.45-Caliber Cross Fire
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101561335

Fugitive Cuno Massey is caught between the law and the lawless in this .45-Caliber western from Peter Brandvold. Cuno Massey may be a federal fugitive, but he’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Spurr Morgan’s best chance to run down a gang of gunrunners. A wagon train of rifles, ammunition, Gatling guns, and dynamite was stolen by U.S. cavalry deserters who intend to sell the weapons to a Mexican general waging war against Yaqui Indians. To even the odds against them, Cuno and Spurr form an alliance with Ojos de Fuega—“Fire Eyes”—a Yaqui queen as savage as she is beautiful, and her band of renegades. With so much firepower and so many deadly players on the warpath, Cuno and Spurr know that they’re sitting atop a powder keg with a sizzling fuse…

Widowmaker Jones

Widowmaker Jones
Author: Brett Cogburn
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786036729

First in an action-packed Western series from the great-grandson of famed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn and two-time Spur Award–winning author. With a bag full of gold dust, Newt “Widowmaker” Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger—Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan “Red” Cortina—is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt’s horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It’s enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt’s. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the horses he’s stolen, the women he’s bedded, and the men he’s killed. As for Newt, he has a unique talent for choosing the wrong partners, from an angry, addled judge named Roy Bean to a brother and sister pair of circus folk, Fonzo Grey and Buckshot Annie. The more Newt pursues the cunning and deadly Cortina, the angrier he gets, until somewhere on the border the whole crazy journey explodes into an all-out battle of bullets and blood . . . Praise for Brett Cogburn “The familiar ambiance of the Western is kept fresh in Cogburn’s sure hands.” —Historical Novel Society “Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburn’s readable prose and lively characters.” —Publishers Weekly “Cogburn amazes and astounds.” —Booklist

Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay
Author: J. Lee Butts
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101061391

There is always a price...and it’s paid in blood. Eli Gault was raised by a merciless, drunken fire-and-brimstone preacher—until he avenged himself upon his pious father. And that was only the beginning of his rage. Because when Eli meets Cutter Sharpe—a legendary mankiller and expert gunhand—the pair starts shooting their way across Texas, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind them. But Eli is about to learn that there’s a line a man shouldn’t cross, because there’s no going back—there’s only hell to pay.

Hell's Angel

Hell's Angel
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110162339X

Bounty hunter Lou Prophet takes on a corrupt town in this western from Peter Brandvold. While on the run from Rurales in Mexico, Lou Prophet stops at the familiar desert town of Chisos Springs. Except now it’s called Moon’s Well. And it appears that more than the name has changed. It’s being controlled by the scoundrel Mordecai Moon, who even charges people for water. Lou Prophet won’t stand for such shady business, but he’s never made an enemy like Mordecai... When Mordecai has Lou beaten and sends him into the blazing desert tied over his horse, matters go from bad to personal. Rescued by an old friend and business partner, Lou is ready to end Mordecai’s reign of terror. And with the outlaw’s own girlfriend straddling sides, Lou will make sure he goes out with a bang.

The Last Lawman

The Last Lawman
Author: Peter Brandvold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101611456

The first Rusty Spur novel, featuring aging Deputy U.S. Marshal Spur Morgan... Spurr may be an old dog in the business of tracking down desperados, but where his body may fail him, his instincts remain unmatched. Spurr has his sights set on Clell Stanhope, the notorious leader of a gang called the Vultures. Not only has Clell managed to dodge the law, but he’s littered his trail with dozens of innocent men, women and children… Spurr has met his fair share of murderers, but this vulture is the most brutally clever of the breed. Tracking him down requires as much cunning as it does hot lead. After Clell lures every last tin star into his bloody trap, Spurr thinks he may be the last man standing. That is until a half-breed by the name of Yakima Henry offers his services…

The Awakening of the Widow Maker

The Awakening of the Widow Maker
Author: Zoez Lajoune
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1642142190

The Awakening of The Widow Maker is the story of high school senior Carlos MacIntyre aka Lil Carlos, who loses his mind amid the violence birthed from a deadly trapezoid of personal ambition and selfish exploitation, which take place between two feuding families, controlling two crews at war in a struggle for power over a highaEUR"volume drugaEUR"trafficking zone. The war birthed from an old family betrayal that originated in North Minneapolis that has spread over time into a neighborhood that is located off Brooklyn Boulevard and Zane Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. The resilience of the human part of Lil Carlos's soul attempting to survive the darkness unleashes The Widow Maker-a psychopathic, unrelenting, serialaEUR"killing entity that has been waiting in a dark chamber of his mind since he was in the womb. Driven by an insatiable thirst for blood, along with a growing hunger to inflict pain, he leaves a very disturbing dark age calling card at each homicide scene across the Twin Cities. The unrepentant ones who have no loyalty, destroy the balance of the streets, and incite his wrath will bear his eternal mark. Swiftly, his trail of carnage stretches from the doors of Park Center High to Regions Hospital in East St. Paul, Minnesota. None that fall on his list can find refuge at any place. Lead Detective Tommy Soprano, along with his rookie partner Mike Kowalski, are in a race against time to catch a methodical killer before he strikes again and save a young man with a severe psychosis, before he is lost forever to the darkness within himself. John Wayne Gacy (Chicago, Illinois), Jeffrey Dahmer (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), and John Lee Malvo (Washington, DC) each had their own dwelling, territory, and story with roots of old. However, even they knew well not to cross into the backyard of the Twin Cities. Lest, through their own illaEUR"gotten behavior, they too should fall on the list of none other than . . . The Light of Death Himself. . . The Widow Maker!

Widowmaker

Widowmaker
Author: William E. McClintock
Publisher: William E. McClintock
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2015-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Arizona Territory, 1881. Coleman Matthews is a gunman with a desolate heart and a wry sense of humor... He can put a bullet in your chest before you clear leather or drop you from a thousand yards out with a .50 caliber Sharps. He carries a sawed off ten-gauge in a saddle scabbard and a push dagger inside his gunbelt for closer-in social work. But saddle up… ride with him for awhile as he hunts down the wolfpack of thieves and killers who raped and murdered one of the few people he ever cared about...