Bill Brooks

The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming that year was devastating, killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch, waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses, and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. When the storm finally blew itself out and the Chinook came, Cole surveyed...

This western has humor, suspense, twists, and a puzzling mystery for John Henry to pursue as he's shot up by robbers, bounty hunters, a vengeful Mexican family, and a cold-blooded killer. Well-crafted side plots add depth to the story and to the protagonist particularly as he steadies a consumptive and deadly Doc Holliday and shares a cell with a drunken, foul-mouthed Calamity Jane.--Publisher's Weekly

Business lately has been deadly for Ike Kelly. Recent unexpected gunplay has left his agency to a single operative. John Henry Cole is that operative. Kelly has received a letter from former lover Lydia Winslow, who operates an escort service in the new mining camp of Deadwood in Dakota Territory. "Three young women have been murdered since they arrived in camp." It is obviously a dangerous assignment, and Cole is advised that he must take every precaution-as...

"Three stories of different men, all pistoleros who live by the gun. There's Frank and Jesse, as close as brothers, drifting through life as cattle drovers and then soldiers under General Custer's doomed command, until an unexpected job offer puts them in the wrong place at the wrong time. There's famed gunslinger J. C. Bone, who's going blind and is pursued into Mexico by a cold-blooded shootist determined to be the last gunfighter standing. And...

John Henry Cole worked for years in Cheyenne, Wyoming-first as a policeman, and later a detective. He enjoyed the work, despite its dangers, but it was time for a change. So he decided to open his own agency, one staffed by former lawmen like himself. In practice they might be bounty hunters, but he hired men he had worked with before that he knew and trusted to be honorable and professional-and then they got to work. And work it was. Cole's agency...

A Bad Place to Die. When Wyatt Earp and his brothers left Dodge City, they left the job of keeping the peace to young Bat Masterson. But a lawman's badge is little more than a target in this rough, wide-open frontier town where, for every citizen who abides by the law, there are two who want to tear it apart. And nearly every stranger who rides in is offered a handsome fee to put a bullet between a lawman's eyes. Teddy Blue's come for a different...

Captain Gus Rodgers of the Texas Rangers is dying-and before he goes, he needs Jim's help to free his grandson from a Mexican prison. Trouble is, the Federale general holding him wants the head of the boy's brother, Billy, who has already confessed to murdering the general's daughter. Gus believes Billy deserves to die. The old ranger's just worried he won't live long enough to do the deed-which is where Jim Glass comes in. Gus's wild grandsons may...

Jim Glass' long-sought peace is shattered when the ex-soldier and ex-Ranger discovers six of his corralled horses dead, their throats slit. Though he dreads doing so, he'll strap on his weapons and go hunting for the culprit-because someone capable of such a foul, thoughtless killing is capable of anything. The dusty town of Domingo has been targeted by a pair of blood-crazed brothers and their Texas cohorts with robbery, murder and mayhem on their...

"The Texas Rangers are determined to make sure Johnny Montana appears before Hanging Judge Parker in Arkansas for killing a US senator, but it's a long way across Indian Territory and there are plenty of others looking to exact their own vengeance along the way"--