John Lee Johnson Will Hurt You Bad—Real Bad

John Lee Johnson Will Hurt You Bad—Real Bad
Author: Conn Hamlett
Publisher: Abbott Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1458220761

It is 1865 and former Brigadier General Frank McGrew has not forgotten the loss of his brother at Fort Pillow and the everlasting thorn in his side, ex-Confederate John Lee Johnson. Unfortunately while recklessly acting on his hatred for Johnson and exacting revenge for his brothers death, McGrew has lost his rank and prestige in the military. Still, he remains determined to bag the big Texan, no matter what it takes or costs him personally. McGrew ultimately hires a group of disciplined gunmen and its infamous leader, Sabbath Sam, to help him carry out his mission. Sam, known as the fastest gun east of the Mississippi, has his own reasons for hunting Johnson. As Sam pursues Johnson with a rabid hatred, he and his pack of twenty-one hired killers ride toward Texas. While McGrew anxiously awaits the news whether Johnson is finally eliminated or if he has managed to escape death once again, two of the most deadly gunmen in the West finally meet in a showdown deep in the Nations where fate is left to determine the outcome. In this western thriller, an ex-military general continues his vengeful mission to eliminate his greatest enemy, with help from a notorious gunman and his gang.

John Lee Johnson in the Valley of the Sun: Along Came Jones

John Lee Johnson in the Valley of the Sun: Along Came Jones
Author: Conn Hamlett
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665544538

John Lee Johnson in the Valley of the Sun is part of a series pitting John Lee Johnson, the powerfully strong and talented gunman against his nemesis, former Brigadier-General Frank McGrew, a very wealthy steel and railroad magnate. Their enmity goes back to the Civil War (just recently ended.) McGrew has hired private assassins; has sent waves of gunman. He even lured the big Texan into a pit fight with the meanest man alive. When Johnson defeated the toughest man in Chihuahua in a wild and exciting slugfest, McGrew conceived the plan to entice Johnson to return to Chihuahua, Mexico to brace the fastest gunman known on the planet for $100,000 in Mexican gold. The location is the Valley of the Sun...a desolate place of death. Beneath a cruel, inexorable sun constantly shining on nauseating yellow sand---surrounded by stark mountains that form a horseshoe shape valley lay the ruins of both a Christian mission and a sacrificial Aztec altar from centuries past. The hauntingly beautiful Marilla Urmacher, once an enemy to John Lee Johnson, but now a faithful ally comes to his rescue. She sends California's best gunfighter to run interference for the man she secretly loves, John Lee Johnson. The struggles on the journey and the list of strange characters that John Lee Johnson encounters make this an excellent read. It is a classic story of good versus bad. The reader may wonder if good will really win in the end. This western is different. It is not just a melodrama. It pits the money and influence of a wealthy man against the strongest and most singular man in Texas. Their struggles against each other influences so many other singular individuals that are caught up in this eventual death struggle.

John Lee Johnson from Texas

John Lee Johnson from Texas
Author: Conn Hamlet
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1449727816

This story is about a land takeover in Texas by a scheming Union major and his two nephews. Unfortunately for them it was the ranch that belonged to John Lee Johnsons father. The hard-charging Texan leaves his soldierly duties with the approbation of his superiors and returns over many miles, meting out justice and mercy on his way. He encounters many problems and adventures on his way much like Ulysses on his way home from Troy.

John Lee Johnson and the Gunslingers

John Lee Johnson and the Gunslingers
Author: Conn Hamlett
Publisher: Abbott Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1458211282

John Lee Johnson has a way of getting things donebut now he needs to get things done on his own 50,000-acre ranch in Texas. Two gangs of rustlers have been slowly draining the cattle from his herd, and that could spell the end of his livelihood. He begins the journey from Ohio back to Texas outfitted with military holsters around his waist holding Navy Colts and two more stuck in his belt. He knows how to use them and use them well. Before he can complete the trip, however, the Union government asks him to arrest two outlaws hiding in the badlands of the nation. But Johnson faces more challenges. Marilla Urmacher, widow of an outland brigand called Indian Melvin, concocts a scheme to destroy Johnson. She plans to lead the big Texan and his federal deputies into an abandoned town, where she has two gangs ready to take them all down. Even worse, Marilla has also hired two of the best gunslingers in the Southwest and set them waiting at his ranch, ready and eager to send the big man to the Promised Land.

John Lee Johnson on the Trail

John Lee Johnson on the Trail
Author: Conn Hamlett
Publisher: Abbott Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1458206890

John Lee Johnson has just retrieved his Texas ranch from the nefarious Purvis Brothers, with considerable help from Federal Agent Levi Brown. Unfortunately, the ex-Confederate has little time to enjoy his ranch before he feels obligated to fulfill a promise he made to a Union officer after a bloody skirmish in Lexington, Tennessee. Before he departs for Ohio, the sheriff warns him about Ridgeway Large, a self-proclaimed half-breed who kills without remorse. Six days into his dangerous journey, John encounters a girl who leads him to the gruesome scene of her parents brutal murders. After determining Ridgeway Large is the likely suspect, John leaves the girl with friends, ignores his previous obligations, and begins a dangerous quest to find the murderer and kill him. But as soon as surly Union officer Frank McGrew learns of Johns mission, he wants nothing more than to exact his revenge for his brothers murder and send the Texan straight to the gates of hell. In this historical thriller, a fierce battle ensues between the indomitable will of rebel John Lee Johnson and the overwhelming hatred of McGrew as both seek retribution. But in the end, only one will stay true to his principles.

John Lee Johnson: into the Pits of Hell

John Lee Johnson: into the Pits of Hell
Author: Conn Hamlett
Publisher: Abbott Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1458221946

God doesnt make many perfect men, but John Lee Johnson comes close. Hes willing to kill those who do wrong but show mercy, as well. Not preternatural but extraordinary, John has made enemies who will go great lengths to destroy him. As a former confederate soldier, he is beleaguered constantly by once union general Frank McGrew. McGrew holds John in disdain and now concentrates his hate toward the big Texan who wants nothing more than to live peacefully on his ranch with his beloved wife, Martha. McGrew hatches a plan that forces John to face notorious pit fighter El Toro in Chihuahua, Mexico, and John takes the bait. On the way, he meets an older man named Lambert, but Lambert has secrets of his own. Meanwhile, Johns rich, bachelor cousin Seth has women throwing themselves at his feet. His friend Floyd concocts a scheme to find the perfect woman for Seth while John prepares to fight a death battle in a hot pit of the Chihuahua Desert. John survived the Civil War; now, he must survive El Toro, McGrew, and those who plot to steal the peace hes worked so hard to find.

Little Black Girl Lost

Little Black Girl Lost
Author: Keith Lee Johnson
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781601620507

Fifteen-year-old Johnnie Wise is sold to a corrupt white insurance man named Earl Shamus by her mother, while being pursued by a crime boss who will stop at nothing to possess her in 1950s New Orleans.

Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374279127

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Author: Gene Odom
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2002-10-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0767910281

The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s rise again from the ashes. In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to play covers of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Yardbirds and the country and blues-rock music they had grown to love. Naming their band after Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher at Robert E. Lee Senior High School who constantly badgered the long-haired aspiring musicians to get haircuts, they were soon playing gigs at parties, and bars throughout the South. During the next decade Lynyrd Skynyrd grew into the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful of the rock bands to emerge from the South since the Allman Brothers. Their hits “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Alabama” became classics. Then, at the height of its popularlity in 1977, the band was struck with tragedy --a plane crash that killed Ronnie Van Zant and two other band members. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock is an intimate chronicle of the band from its earliest days through the plane crash and its aftermath, to its rebirth and current status as an enduring cult favorite. From his behind-the-scenes perspective as Ronnie Van Zant’s lifelong friend and frequent member of the band’s entourage who was also aboard the plane on that fateful flight, Gene Odom reveals the unique synthesis of blues/country rock and songwriting talent, relentless drive, rebellious Southern swagger and down-to-earth sensibility that brought the band together and made it a defining and hugely popular Southern rock band -- as well as the destructive forces that tore it apart. Illustrated throughout with rare photos, Odom traces the band’s rise to fame and shares personal stories that bring to life the band’s journey. For the fans who have purchased a cumulative 35 million copies of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s albums and continue to pack concerts today, Lynyrd Skynyrd is a celebration of an immortal American band.