Peter Brandvold

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.

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.

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.

GET READY FOR A DOSE OF ACTION AND ADVENTURE WITH A HEAPING HELPING OF WESTERN JUSTICE "Bloody" Joe Mannion is a town tamer of great renown. His temper is just as famous. Known as the most uncompromising lawman on the Western frontier, he's been the town marshal of Del Norte in the Colorado Territory for the past five years after several years bringing to heel towns in Kansas and Oklahoma back in the days of the great Texas cattle herds. One day in Del Norte, he loses his famous temper and badly beats Whip Helton, the son of a prominent rancher. That night, the son and his outlaw pards burn Joe's house and kidnap and rape his daughter. Joe goes on the warpath, getting crossways with the son's father, prominent rancher Garth Helton. By getting crossways with Helton, Joe gets crossways with his town. The town's prominent boosters want the money Helton has invested in Del Norte as well as the railroad he wants to bring there. Now with Whip Helton behind bars, his father has issued an ultimatum to Bloody Joe and the town-either turn his son loose or he and his Spur riders will burn the town to the ground and sift the ashes. Bloody Joe finds himself between a rock and a hard place, waiting for a bullet in the back. But that's all right. He wouldn't have it any other way. To make sure Whip Helton hangs for kidnapping and rape, Bloody Joe will risk everything, including his life, the town, and a hail of hot lead

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

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.

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

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

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

RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER Deputy U. S. Marshal Gideon Hawk was respected throughout the Territory as a lawman of principle - until Three Fingers Ned Meade threw him a curve. Meade killed Hawk's ten-year-old boy, and the grisly act drove Hawk's grief-stricken wife to hang herself. Now, robbed of kin, Hawk sets out on a brutal quest to find the man responsible - at any cost.

THE SEXIEST AND MOST VIOLENT YAKIMA HENRY NOVEL YET Yakima kills a young bushwhacker who was trying to kill him one late rainy desert night. The problem is, young Weldon Stratton was the son of a very powerful rancher, Renee Stratton, who is as savage as she is beautiful. Renee vows bloody murder on Yakima for having taken the life of her boy despite the kill-crazy nut-case young Weldon was. Yakima finds himself wrestled to the ground by Renee's ranch hands, stripped naked, and kissed with a red-hot branding iron by Renee herself. Marked forever by Renee's brand but armed with his trusty Winchester Yellowboy repeater, an Arkansas toothpick, a stag-gripped Colt .44, and a fury born of the mark he'll wear to his grave, Yakima declares holy vengeance on Renee Stratton and all of her gun-hung ranch hands who left him howling in the dust, Stripped and Branded

Yakima Henry is once again Town Marshal of Apache Springs, Arizona. Not an easy job, for Apache Springs is booming and the railroad has come to town. Badmen outnumber the lawmen by a thousand to three. Yakima's job gets all the harder when someone kills a prominent businessman and siccs two kill-crazy assassins on Yakima himself. Turns out that's the least of his worries, for someone else sends even more killers bent on turning him toe-town - Yakima would like to know why. It seems to be tied to the fact that the mysterious, treasure-laden canyon southwest of Apache Springs is being the target of more and more gold-hungry men searching for their own El Dorados. However, according to the beautiful young desert rat, Emma Kosgrove, the canyon was cursed by an Apache witch. The removal of the treasure would release the curse from the canyon and wreak havoc across the land.

Yakima Henry is once again Town Marshal of Apache Springs, Arizona. The kill-crazy mining engineer, Rebel Wilkes, might have burned the town nearly to the ground two years ago, but with newly discovered gold in the surrounding mountains and a railroad on the way, the town is flourishing. But with wealth comes trouble, and Yakima is about to have his fill. The half-breed marshal has two deputies, the old former outlaw who calls himself the Rio Grande Kid, and a true kid, Galveston Penny, to help keep the lid on the town and the surrounding area, including a canyon filled with lost Jesuit gold.According to legend, the gold was cursed by an ancient Apache witch after the slaves were killed in an earthquake. If the wealth in the canyon is exploited, all hell will break loose in and around Apache Springs.

ONE HELL OF A BLOOD-SPLASHED, ROUGH WESTERN TALE. Yakima Henry is holed up in an old prospector's cabin in the wilds of south-central Arizona, between Tucson and Lordsburg, New Mexico. He's decided to cool his heels until fall, prospecting for gold and hoping for a little color with which to fund a trek into Mexico. The half-breed wanderer just can't shake Faith's memory, however. Not even with the help of the firewater and pretty whore in the Busted Flush Saloon in the little nowhere town of Apache Springs. The firewater causes the crazed, jade-eyed half-breed to go into a rage and bust up the saloon and half the men in the town until he's finally subdued and carted over to the local jail - locked up by his friend, Town Marshal Lon Taggart.