ISBN: 9780593441459
Editorial: Berkley
Autor: West, Charles G.
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 288
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Product DescriptionA convict returns home hell-bent on revenge in this Charles G. West western.Almost ten years ago, Colt McCrae, a wild eighteen-year-old, was sent to jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he's received grim news: his estranged father has been murdered and his family needs Colt home.He returns to Whiskey Hill, Wyoming, but he’s not welcome by everyone. Colt means trouble—now more than ever. Because he knows who killed his father. Ruthless range baron Frank Drummond wants the land and will bury anyone who dares oppose him.But now, Colt is back. And he’s no longer a kid with a chip on his shoulder. He’s a prison-hardened man with a mind for justice....About the AuthorCharles G. West is the author of more than forty action-packed Westerns. He won the 2018 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for his novel Hell Hath No Fury. His fascination with and respect for the pioneers who braved the wild frontier of the great American West inspire him to devote his full time to writing historical novels.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter 1Like two old bulls, they stood eyeing each other. Two big men, determined and defiant, the gray-streaked manes of each bearing testament to a life of tests and survival. In Frank Drummond's mind, this confrontation was to be the final one. It was the third time he had made an offer to buy out Sam McCrae's Bar-M Ranch, a section of range that he needed and intended to have. Peaceful buyout or otherwise, his patience was exhausted. He figured he had gone as far as he intended with the stubborn old son of a bitch, and it was time for a showdown. "Well?" he demanded."How many different ways do you have to hear the word no before you get it through that thick skull that you ain't gettin' the Bar-M?" Sam McCrae replied defiantly. "You and that gang of outlaws that work for you have scared most of the smaller ranchers out of the territory. You even got to Sessions last year, but by God, you ain't gettin' the Bar-M or the Broken-M. Me and my brother were here before you ever saw this valley, and we, by God, plan to be here after you're gone. You've had your say now, so you can climb back in that buckboard and get the hell off my land."Frank Drummond stood fuming, his heavy eyebrows glowering like dark storm clouds as he glared at Sam McCrae. Barely able to control his rage, he nevertheless spoke quietly but clearly. "You've gotten my final offer, McCrae. Now we'll see who stays in this valley and who doesn't." He turned away and climbed back in his buckboard.Sam stood on the top step of his porch, a deep scowl etched across his weathered face, watching until the buckboard disappeared behind the cottonwoods at the bend of the creek. I hope to hell he finally believes he ain't running me off my land, he thought. Drummond already owned all the land from the north bank of Lodgepole Creek to the stream that formed the boundary at the beginning of McCrae range. That wasn't enough for Drummond. He wanted to control all the land between Lodgepole Creek and Whiskey Hill, more than fifteen miles of open range.The price Drummond had offered was a fraction of the value of the land between his spread and the free-flowing water of Crooked Creek. Even if the offered price had been reasonable, Sam had no intention of selling. He and his brother, Burt, who owned a spread adjacent to his, had first come to settle here when the town of Cheyenne was known as Crow Creek Crossing. There was plenty of land north of Crow Creek Crossing for everyone then. Sam and Burt weren't the only settlers who claimed portions of the vast prairie convenient to the proposed Union Pacific Railroad line. There were a good many more, enough to establish a small town called Whiskey Hill, a half-day's ride from Crow Creek Crossing. Drummond moved in a couple of years later with a crew of men more at home on wanted posters than tending cattle. His intentions were soon apparen
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