Robert J Randisi

Miles Jacoby is torn between a career in the ring and his new ticket as a private investigator. When his sleuth mentor is murdered, it's bad enough that Miles's brother is charged. Worse, Miles finds himself in love with his brother's wife. Said Elmore Leonard: "If Eye in the Ring moved any faster you'd have to nail it down to read it.

Men fell prey to her angel eyes...and killing ways. WOLF PASS Liz Archer turns bounty hunter as she sets her sights on a vicious wolf and two rugged men. NO REST FOR THE WEARY A rancher in Wolf Pass, Montana threatens to disclose Liz Archer's identity unless she agrees to become bounty hunter for a vicious wolf. Liz teams up with an attractive hired "wolfer" to bag the animal, but does not realize that she will have to compete with three unscrupulous hunters also after Gray Hair. They will stop at nothing to kill the animal first, even if it means collecting the hide of. . . ANGEL EYES

By 1965, Eddie Giannelli has a rep as a "go-to" guy in Vegas...but Frank Sinatra takes Eddie away from home on a trip to Miami. When that happens, Eddie G not only pals around with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., but gets the chance to meet "The Great One", Jackie Gleason. Word of Eddie's skill for helping people out of tough jams makes the trip to Florida too as he's asked to help out a woman Gleason's involved with. Before you can say "And Away We Go ", Eddie finds himself caught up in a tale of murder, bourbon, and Brooklyn...

After Dean Martin saves Eddie G. from being hit by a car, Eddie's torpedo buddy Jerry arrives from Brooklyn with the news: somebody's put an open contract out on him. As anybody can cash it in, pros and amateurs alike are coming out of the woodwork to have a shot. So when Eddie is asked by Frank Sinatra to go to LA to help his friend, Judy Garland, with a problem she's having, Eddie and Jerry seize the opportunity to leave Vegas. Unfortunately the contract follows Eddie there. While doing his best to stay alive long enough to find out who hates him so much they want him dead, Eddie must also solve Judy Garland's problem of a possible stalker and blackmailer.

Three years ago, Sangster, a hitman, woke up and discovered he had a soul and decided to retire to New Orleans. Now, his former life has finally caught up with him. And they want him back or the alternative is his death. To truly escape his past, Sangster must decide between saving his soul or eliminating the threat the only way he knows how. "Randisi is a masterful writer . . ." -James W. Hall "Randisi is a master of the genre. He's one of the best." -Michael Connelly "A skilled, uncompromising writer, Randisi knows which buttons to press-and how to press them." -John Lutz

RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER After a spell of setting traps and livin' off the rough mountain country, Jack Pike got hungry for the fleshpots most men call home. Meetin' up with his trail pard Skins McConnell, Pike aimed to sample himself something warm and willin' at the local post when he ran into trouble. Father Smets and his missionaries were on the trail of a lost band of their compadres when their guides robbed them, leaving them stranded in hostile Indian territory. With the Blackfeet and Flathead tribes fixin' to go to war, Pike and McConnell signed on to lead the padre to safe ground. And, when a saucy camp girl named Sally offered to keep his bedroll warm, the big mountain man knew he'd be sitting pretty. But as soon as the fighting started, he had his long gun out, primed and ready to bring the scalp-happy savages to their knees in a bloody desert climax

RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER All fired up from trapping a load of fresh beaver, Mountain Jack Pike and his ornery sidekick Skins O'Connell pushed through some virgin bush into Fort Halls for a little hard-earned fun. Trading their soft pelts for some hard cash, the burly mountain men snatched up a couple of saloon gals, hungry for some real frontier lovin'. Then, trouble hits. Ol' One Eye, a man-eating wolf, was attacking children and livestock near the fort. Everyone agreed the beast needed killing, but Pike was the only man big enough for the job. With the helping hand of a lusty young widow, the hot-blooded trapper picked up the scent of the demon wolf in the local hills and got down to action. But, Jack soon became the prey of a lowdown killer named De Roche, who was aimin' to collect the secret bounty of Ol' One Eye. Working up to a powerful, high-mountain climax, hard man Pike pumps his long gun fast and furious against both man and animal 'til he laid them down in a flood of hot lead and cold killing

THE CAST-IRON STAR AND OTHER WESTERN STORIES brings together the finest tales of legendary Western author Robert J. Randisi, creator of The Gunsmith series. As one of the most prolific Western writers of all time, Randisi brings his trademark fast pace and flair for action to the stories in this volume, which include "The Cast-Iron Star", "The Story", "Three-Handed Winter", "Dancing on Air", "A Tall Man Hangs From a Short Rope", "The Knights of Liberty", "A Bad End", "Blood Trail to Dodge", and the original, novella-length version of "The Ghost With Blue Eyes". THE CAST-IRON STAR AND OTHER WESTERN STORIES is 48,000 words of Western adventure at its best.

A BEAR OF A MAN, JACK PIKE HAS ALL THE NECESSARY TOOLS TO STAND HARD AND FASTThe Indians call him "he whose head touches the sky," the womenfolk call him whenever he's near. He's the biggest hunk of man-flesh in the Rockies; he's mountain man Jack Pike When the famous Russian Ivan Koloff invites Pike to join him on a grizzly hunt, Pike has to think twice. Bears are best left alone, and besides, Pike's nose is for beaver. But one look at Koloff's curvaceous companion Vanya is all the persuading the hot-blooded mountain man needs. And who knows, Pike's beaver hunting skills just might bring him a new pelt on this trip. Sure enough, Vanya can't seem to stifle her hard-lovin' intentions, and Pike finds himself getting Russian bear hugs in his tent But the mountain man gets shafted hard when Ivan deals him a card from the bottom of the deck: now Pike is going to be the game, and Ivan the hunter Feeling like a mouse in a rattler's cage, Pike runs off into the wilds as the hunt begins. But just as he's on tarnation's doorstep, buxom Vanya bends over backwards to give Pike what he needs to come away clean

MOUNTAINEERING BREEDS HARD MEN-AND THEY DON'T COME ANY HARDER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKEA bold and brawny trapper hungry for beaver, he's rough and ready mountain Jack Pike A steel-fisted, bear of a man. Jack Pike is the toughest hunk of man-flesh the Rockies ever spawned. Men want to best him, women need to love him, and he always meets their challenges head on. When falling fur prices threaten to undo the trappers, hot-blooded Jack Pike and Skins McConnell head for St. Louis, headquarters of the big fur tradin' companies. But Pike and Skins are quick to learn that the price of beaver in the big city is high, maybe as much as a man's life. Then things get even stickier when the hard-lovin' Skins wakes up next to a dead woman-and lands head first in the hoosegow. Feeling like a fox in a chicken coop, Pike pokes around the bawdy house district, tryin' to clear his friend's name. He's about to come to blows when a prissy city-girl bends over backwards and gives Pike just what he needs to drive Skins' case home and free him once and for all

ROUGH AND READY, THERE'S NONE MORE FIT TO KEEP THE PEACE THAN MOUNTAIN JACK PIKEA child of the mountains, Jack Pike was the toughest hunk of manflesh the Rockies ever spawned. Strapping and sandy-haired, he was made of the stuff men feared and women desired. After meetin' up with Skins McConnell in Bonneville, and getting some late-night healin' from buxom nurse Jacoby, Pike got wind of a bunch of local sidewinders fixin' to rustle from the Indians. Jack knew how lowdown the Redskins could get over their missing horses, so he figured he'd better take things in hand himself because he couldn't abide the thought of the Snake Indians stickin' it to all Bonneville for the thievin' ways of a few bad apples. Saddlin' up with McConnell, the pair went lookin' to deal out a dose of range justice, hellbent on rightin' a wrong and stopping a full-scale war. Pike gets in deeper than he wants before he gets the job done and pulls out safely... none the worse for wear.

Men fell prey to her angel eyes... and killing ways. There are two men after Liz Archer. One wants her as his lover, the other wants her stone-cold dead. A DEADLY TRIANGLEAfter checking into the Clearwater Hotel in the Dakota Territory, Liz Archer meets Sheriff Al Toliver. He's heard about her mean reputation with a gun and warns her that youngster Clay Hammet is aiming to make a name for himself by outdrawing Liz in a gunfight The sheriff keeps a careful eye on both of them, knowing he'll have to face the winner afterwards. Tumbling into bed with Liz makes his job a lot tougher. Into this red-hot triangle rides Liz's old friend, Tate Gilmore, who's just in time for the bullet-ridden showdown.

HELL TOWN Liz Archer turns guardian angel to help a woman saloon owner fight against town boss Ed Logan. Liz Archer arrives in Loganville, Wyoming, for some peace and quiet. But before long, saloon owner Honey O'Day asks the infamous Angel Eyes for her assistance against town honcho Ed Logan. He wants a piece of Honey's action and a piece of Honey, too Liz decides to help out and winds up falling for one of Logan's men to boot. Logan won't sit still for this as he gathers up his army of men to assault the saloon in a bloody battle to the finish

Put on your Santa hat and saddle up for this collection of creepy Christmas stories from the Western Fictioneers, the world's only organization of professional authors devoted solely to Western fiction. 'Tis the season for ghosts, vampires, monsters, aliens, and other bizarre creatures to make these Old West holiday tales truly special. Legendary Western author Robert J. Randisi spins the spectral yarn of "Sheriff Santa and the Ghost of Two Gun Jim". Peacemaker and Spur Award winning author Troy D. Smith takes the reader on a murderous Christmas journey to "Bitter Mountain". New York Times bestseller and Peacemaker Award winner James Reasoner writes about a strange encounter on the Staked Plains in "Presents for One and All". Larry D. Sweazy, two-time winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western fiction, tells the story of an epic battle between good and evil in "The Longest Night". An isolated stagecoach station under siege by Apaches is the setting of Cheryl Pierson's "The Keepers of Camelot", a tale of rebirth and redemption. These and many other stories by some of today's top writers in the Western field make SIX-GUNS AND SLAY BELLS the most unusual Western Christmas anthology ever published.

ANGEL OF THE NIGHTAfter Liz Archer wakes up next to a corpse in a Frisco whorehouse, she's arrested for murder. Innocent of the crime, she escapes from jail desperate to uncover the truth. With help from an oriental "lady of the evening," Liz learns more than the identity of the killer. She learns her way around the brutal nocturnal world of a Chinatown bordello Liz archer turns from gunslinger to sleuth when she is framed for murder in a Chinatown bordello