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When it comes to gun-blazing, bone-crushing action, no one tells a tale like acclaimed Western writer Peter Brandvold. These are the violent days (and reckless nights) of Lou Prophet, as told to his ink-stained confessor. Most of these recollections are brutal. Others are bloody. Some might even be true . . . LAST STAGE TO HELL What do you get when you take one stagecoach out of Denver, add a thousand-or-so bullets whizzing past your head, while sitting next to two headless corpses caught in the crossfire? If your name is Lou Prophet, you get revenge. Raucous, rowdy, ruthless revenge. Next question? DEVIL BY THE TAIL How do you catch a fork-tongued demon who's busted out of prison to wreak all sorts of unholy hell on a small Texas town? If you're Lou Prophet, you team up with red-hot Louisa Bonaventura, aka "The Vengeance Queen," and cut a swath of merciless Prophet mayhem in return. Due process be damned . . . Praise for Peter Brandvold "A storyteller who knows the West."--Bill Brooks, author of Stolen Horses "A writer to watch."--Spur Award-winning author Jory Sherman "Action-packed . . . for fans of traditional westerns."--Booklist

In Lou Prophet's lawless West, justice comes from the barrel of a gun--his gun. Peter Brandvold's acclaimed two-fisted Westerns tell of the bloody days (and thrilling nights) of the bounty hunter called Prophet, and the dangerous woman he dared to love. . . . BLOOD AT SUNDOWN Lou Prophet and the deadly Louisa Bonaventure have torn a bloody swath across Dakota territory in search of the Griff Hatchley gang. When they finally catch up to them, an epic blizzard threatens to turn the Dakota prairie into a frozen hell. To bag their prey before the storm hits, Prophet and Louisa split up--and take separate paths towards damnation. DEATH IN THE SNOW Prophet's course takes him into a town packed to the gills with the deadliest outlaws that roamed the frontier, while Louisa gets caught in Sundown, a one-horse town where a hatchet-wielding maniac threatens to paint Main Street red. When spring's thaw comes, they'll find a city of corpses beneath the snow. And nobody gives a damn about the law . . . "Here's a writer with the hot, fast violence of the early Mickey Spillane and the guts to write what he wants." --Tom McNulty, Dispatches From the Last Outlaw

Of all the legends of the Old West, few are as stained with ink, blood, and bullets as the violent days of bounty hunter Lou Prophet. But what happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? Heaven knows there'll be hell to pay . . . THE DEVIL RIDES AGAIN After a hard night with his sometime lover Louisa Bonaventure--"the Vengeance Queen"--Lou Prophet decides to cool his heels at a local honky tonk. Things heat up fast when he defends one of the girls from a sadistic brute who also happens to be the deputy sheriff. And now Prophet is running for his life . . . WITH A BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD Heading south of the border to Mexico, Prophet isn't the only man marked for death. The young red-headed pistolero Colter Farrow has made an awful lot of enemies, too--and now practically every bounter hunter south of the Rio Grande is gunning for blood. For money. For fun. And, now, for Lou Prophet . . . "Here's a writer with hot, fast violence and the guts to write what he wants."--Tom McNulty, Dispatches from the Last Outlaw

Stranded in the rugged northern Rockies, a wagon train of settlers is viciously savaged by a group of merciless outlaws rampaging through the mountains. But when the villains cross the wrong man, nothing on earth will stop him from paying every one of them back--in blood.

A two-book omnibus edition featuring the famed .45-Caliber series featuring Cuno Massey. In .45-Caliber Town Under Siege, a gang of cutthroats who call themselves "the Boys" led by the savage killer Cecil Craig run Cuno's freight wagon off the road and into a canyon, killing the young freighter's mules and setting him afoot. That's only the start of the desperados' depredations. In .45-Caliber Left to Die, Cuno is passing through central New Mexico when he's ambushed by town tamer Lawton Briggs and three other men and one pretty but angry young woman, Stacey Ramos. Believing Massey is part of a gang of stage robbers, they strip him naked, lay him out spread-eagle and tied to ground-sunk stakes, and leave him to die.

SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk gives some bounty hunters a lethal lesson in how reputations are made when a beautiful prostitute asks for his protection."Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series." - James Reasoner

Gideon Hawk follows one rule - justice.Hawk's been asked to find a merciless gang leader called Knife-Hand. One of his hands has been replaced with a Mojave axe. But Hawk has something mightier in his artillery - a personal vendetta."Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series." - James Reasoner

RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER The Tierney gang is spreading their terror throughout Trinity Ridge, and the town needs a temporary lawman to dole out justice - former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk. He won't rest until they're strung up from the gallows they once escaped."A storyteller who knows the West."-Bill Brooks

RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER Hawk is holed up in an old prospector's cabin high in the Idaho mountains when he learns that an innocent girl has been kidnapped by the notorious outlaw businessman, Quentin Burnett. Burnett erroneously believes he owns this entire corner of Idaho...and all the people in it, including the girls.Burnett has a history of kidnapping young women and marrying them. He gets away with it because he's rich and he knows the most powerful men on the frontier. When Burnett's girls get too old for him, or he just plain tires of them, he sends them down to the second floor of his New Canaan whorehouse and puts them to work on their backs.That dark fate is not going to happen to Jennie Broyles. Not if Hawk can help it.

In this 4th book in bestselling author Peter Brandvold's exciting new Bloody Joe western series, the stakes are higher than ever before, and the action is hotter than hellfire Del Norte Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion and his junior deputy, Henry "Stringbean" McCallister, run down an especially violent as well as beguiling outlaw in the pretty form of Mathilda Calderon. The senorita is just one pretty girl, but she fights like a leg-trapped puma, leaving Mannion with an arm full of buckshot and Stringbean hurting where a man just shouldn't be attacked, gallblastit Senorita Calderon is wanted not only for aiding and abetting the commission of a federal crime but to testify in a court trial against her boyfriend, the notorious border bandito and revolutionario, Diego Hidalgo, who stole three Gatling guns from the U.S. Army, wiping out a dozen soldiers in the deadly process. Hidalgo and three members of his gang were captured by the Army. The U.S. Marshal for the Southwestern District has sent three deputy U.S. marshals to retrieve the senorita from Del Norte and to escort her to Tucson. Bloody Joe believes she will not only identify Hidalgo as the leader of the gang who stole the Gatling guns but will also testify as to the guns' whereabouts.

In this 4th book in bestselling author Peter Brandvold's exciting new Bloody Joe western series, the stakes are higher than ever before, and the action is hotter than hellfire Del Norte Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion and his junior deputy, Henry "Stringbean" McCallister, run down an especially violent as well as beguiling outlaw in the pretty form of Mathilda Calderon. The senorita is just one pretty girl, but she fights like a leg-trapped puma, leaving Mannion with an arm full of buckshot and Stringbean hurting where a man just shouldn't be attacked, gallblastit Senorita Calderon is wanted not only for aiding and abetting the commission of a federal crime but to testify in a court trial against her boyfriend, the notorious border bandito and revolutionario, Diego Hidalgo, who stole three Gatling guns from the U.S. Army, wiping out a dozen soldiers in the deadly process. Hidalgo and three members of his gang were captured by the Army. The U.S. Marshal for the Southwestern District has sent three deputy U.S. marshals to retrieve the senorita from Del Norte and to escort her to Tucson. Bloody Joe believes she will not only identify Hidalgo as the leader of the gang who stole the Gatling guns but will also testify as to the guns' whereabouts.

SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Gideon Hawk shoots three men who try to rob the saloon he's drinking in. One of those men is the spoiled son of a local rancher, Mortimer Stanley. The rancher doesn't take kindly to Hawk killing his son despite the crime his son was committing.When the rancher sends five men into town to kill Hawk, and Hawk turns them all toe-down, dead as stones, war clouds gather over the little prairie town of Cedar Bend."Action-packed...for fans of traditional westerns."-Booklist

Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion is back in this third high-action volume in Peter Brandvold's explosive new western series When Jeremiah Claggett, constable of the nearby ghost town of Fury, is murdered by Frank Lord, the kill-crazy leader of a dozen wild outlaws, Bloody Joe has to come to grips with the fact that he's inadvertently to blame. Mannion had turned Frank's brother, Billy, over to Claggett for safekeeping, setting off the chain of events that end his friend's life. Mannion is the kill-crazy one now. Not realizing he's being shadowed by Clagget's beautiful, half-wild granddaughter, Justy, and an inscrutable saddle tramp, Mannion sets out on his vengeance quest. In typical Bloody Joe style, he storms Lord's gang single-handedly, which nearly proves to be his undoing-until he's set upon by a mystery 'Man of the Lord' and given... something. Whether that something is good or bad Mannion has difficulty discerning.Saints and Sinners is a crazy, dark, storm-ridden ride through the hell of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Whoever manages to ride out alive-saint or sinner, or maybe a combination-will be changed forever, baptized in gun smoke and blood.

In the action-packed conclusion to Peter Brandvold's bestselling Western series, rough 'n' tough "Bloody" Joe Mannion is pushed to the deadly brink.In the heart of Colorado Territory, Mannion faces a whirlwind of troubles-a foreboding dream hinting at his demise and a vengeful man seeking justice for his family's slaughter.With a mysterious assailant determined to see him and his deputies dead, Mannion races to unmask the perpetrator and understand their motives. But when his family is kidnapped, everything becomes clear-a band of outlaws aims to eliminate Mannion and his team in order to execute a daring train heist, leaving the town reeling from their blood-thirsty robbery.As tensions mount and time runs out, Mannion must confront his own mortality. Will he and Deputy Henry McCallister catch the train robbers...or will fate deal Bloody Joe his last dance?