J. R. Roberts

Clint Adams is just passing through Lubbock- and he just wants to wash the trail dust out of his throat at the local saloon. But before he gets the chance, he's caught smack-dab in the middle of a vicious bushwhacking One of the biggest ranchers in West Texas is stringing barbed wire around his spread, and that makes for some serious enemies. And now that Clint's looking out for him, half the guns in the county are drawing a bead on the Gunsmith...

For Clint Adams, Sacramento meant indulging in all the comforts-and vices-that life offered. But when a mysterious map falls into the Gunsmith's lap, staying in Sacramento could mean a death sentence.Lust for fortune can drive many men, but Adams fears there's more than just gold in the deserted Shasta County mountains that drives a heartless posse to murder. The secret is in the treasure map. And it's directing the Gunsmith to his own dead end...

Tracking down political assassins isn't the sort of thing Clint Adams usually does. But when a friend asks him to lend a hand-and a gun-he agrees.After a day on the case, he knows why he doesn't care for this kind of work-nothing is what it seems and he doesn't dare trust anyone. Even the voluptuous Alison Becker is suspect; she may be using feminine wiles to get information for her influential father. Clint knows only one thing for sure-someone wants him dead... the sooner the better

Killing can change a man...No one knows that better than rancher-turned-bounty-hunter Jack Meeker. Once he foiled a bank holdup and became the town hero. Now he's Little Rock's most notorious killer-for-hire.But when Meeker sets his sights on his old friend Clint Adams, there are a few surprises in store. For losers and legends part ways when their guns are drawn-and only one lives to tell about it.

The worst-kept secret in Gambler's Fork, Arkansas, was the annual invitation-only poker game. Lawmen and desperadoes alike sat down to play every year-with nothing in common but cards, skill, and luck. This year, the invitation list includes Clint Adams, the Gunsmith.It's not just fun and games: Some of the players plan to leave with more than just honest winnings, and soon the stakes rise sky-high. This time, the winner is the man who rides out alive...

Chasing the trail of a suspicious unsigned letter, the Gunsmith winds up in a dusty eyesore known as Patience, Oklahoma. But before Clint can reholster his Colt and point his mount away from the spooky ghost town, the dirty double-crosser who lured him there tries to fill his hide with a rain of sniper shot.Desperate for cover, Clint takes refuge in the town-and falls into the carefully laid trap of a ruthless killer This faceless enemy from the Gunsmith's past wants Clint scared stiff first-and stone dead second.Only one man will leave this eerie hell town alive, trading bullets and blood for the privilege of telling the tale....

Clint Adams met the stranger in the Nevada desert...in a burned-out coach near three dead men. Jack Wagner's on his way to Sacramento to claim a million-dollar inheritance-but someone doesn't want him to get there alive.Only the Gunsmith can lead Wagner safely to California where the deceased's sultry widow- and his headstrong daughter-hanker after their share of the fortune. But first Adams has to ride shotgun through a shooting gallery of hired gunmen-and face the cold-hearted killer who's dealing out this game of chance....

Clint Adams is in San Francisco for one reason-poker. It's a high stakes game that only comes to town twice a year, and he figures to take his share of the pot.What the Gunsmith doesn't figure on is a fat cat's request for information. Seems the man's son is tight with a beautiful Chinese lady, and he thinks the woman has dollar signs instead of stars in her eyes.But before Clint gets a good start, a hired killer sends hot lead blazing his way. Now he's got to find the elusive Angela Hong-and keep clear of half the guns in San Francisco

If anyone told Clint Adams he'd be playing hired gun to a baby, he would've said they were crazy. But that was before he found an infant in an abandoned stage-and made tracks to Doyle, Kansas, to find the little darlin's next of kin.But Doyle ain't exactly rolling out the red carpet for Adams. The town is run by Vic Ward, a mean snake who doesn't like strangers messin' in his affairs. Everyone in town is scared of the saloon owner-even the law. But Adams isn't about to be outgunned by a vicious killer and the gang of rifle-totin' amateurs Ward's rustled up to send the Gunsmith packing. And that's when the lead really starts flying....

The town of Los Alamos is about to be swallowed whole by the notorious bandit El Gigante. Only four dare to fight back-but they know it will be a losing battle unless Clint Adams agrees to step in. The Gunsmith isn't about to sell his hide for a paltry one hundred dollar reward and rumors of a hidden treasure, though...until he meets the sheriff of Los Alamos, the seductive Carlotta Cortez.It seems El Gigante is more hell-bent on the sultry sheriff than on the fabled treasure of Los Alamos. Perhaps the Gunsmith is, too. And that makes for a rivalry as bitter-and deadly-as poison....

When a drunken gambler gets plugged during a game of poker, Clint Adams gets dealt a handful of trouble. Now the dead man's daughter wants to exact her own brand of vengeance...and she wants the Gunsmith's help.But Clint soon discovers that most of the bad blood running through town runs through her own clan. And the Gunsmith has to pull in the reins on the vengeful wildcat-before more of that bad blood runs cold....

When the Gunsmith heard the shots, he knew he had to stop the pistol-packing killers before they turned the peaceful Wyoming sheep meadow into a bloody burial ground. But this is cattle country-and the local ranchers are a mean bunch who don't take kindly to meddlesome strangers.And the meanest one of all is Tom Lord-the low-down cur responsible for the slaughter. Now he's sent his hired guns after Clint Adams...and it looks like the legendary sharpshooter could finally meet his match-or his Maker

When his old buddy Marshal John McIntyre summons him up to Sacramento, Clint knows it must be serious. But before he can even get into town, he runs straight into a stagecoach massacre...and that's just the start of his troubles.Turns out there's a greedy stagecoach man who really believes in killing the competition-including any folks who dare to ride in a stagecoach that isn't his. But John McIntyre's being framed for murder...and only the Gunsmith can save his friend and the townsfolk from a one-way ticket to hell

It looks like the last shoot-out for Clint Adams when he's outdrawn by a silver-tongued, mean-hearted four-flusher. Staring down the barrel of a two-shot derringer, Clint doesn't even have time to raise his own gun before Ian Palmer's bullet damn near kills him.Nursed back to health by a pretty young widow, Clint vows revenge. Trouble is, the memory of Palmer's face has been knocked clear out of his head. But that's not enough to stop the Gunsmith from tracking his man down in a desperado hellhole for one last bout with the deadly derringer....

When Clint Adams drifts into Placerville to do a little gunsmithing, he's counting on a peaceful, uneventful stay. But when he meets up with his old friend Bat Masterson, he knows there won't be a dull moment. Bat's got himself a human money-making machine name of Lenny Younger-alias the Oregon Strangler-a gentle, Bible-reading giant who can't be out-rassled by any man alive.Then big trouble arrives when the town's most popular fancy-lady turns up throttled to death. Lenny's the first suspect, and now it's up to two legends-Masterson and the Gunsmith-to find the real killer before Lenny dies dancing-at the end of a rope.

When Clint Adams renews an old love affair, he doesn't know he's courting death. But the truth is the beautiful redhead from his past is also a killer. Known only as Scarlet, she's any man's equal, a top-notch gunslinger, a bounty hunter who's already gunned down two men. And now, wounded in a shoot-out, she's after the most dangerous prize of all-the two surviving brothers from the notorious Grafton gang.Clint joins her in her fight-and learns the real reason she turned bounty hunter: to seek revenge for a brutal crime. But her thirst for vengeance could endanger both of them before they can bring the Grafton boys to justice....

Clint Adams has finally met his match... at least when it comes to poker. Playing against cardsharp O. G. Phipps, the Gunsmith is folding faster than a union tent in a tornado. It isn't much consolation when Phipps raises the ante and has Clint bunk up at his Kentucky ranch for a high-stakes Derby week of fast dealing and even faster horses. But Clint stands to lose a lot more than his shirt after getting a taste of Southern hospitality from two Kentucky belles. Caught between a pair of hot-blooded beauties, the Gunsmith squares off against a sharpshootin' stranger who hates him for two reasons: one fine lady is his fianc e and the other is his bitterest racetrack rival. Even for the Gunsmith, the stakes are climbing a bit too high...

The newspapers called him "the Gunsmith," a name Clint Adams earned with his lightning-quick trigger finger and arrow-sharp aim. But being the Justice Maker also means taking on every drunken rival who thinks he's got a faster draw.Now, the Gunsmith has a challenger who's deadly serious. A vile-tempered bandit is roaming the open range, robbing stagecoaches and dry-gulching honest folk. His name is the Gunsmith. Common sense tells Clint to catch this outlaw imposter before the law has the real Gunsmith eatin' prison chow. Revenge tells him to make a bloody example of the bushwhackin' fool who dares to dirty his good name...