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Two small areas in Oregon and Washington are going under a barrage of bank robberies by a lady bandit gang that kills a bank teller at each place they bob. The locals are stumped and call un U.S. Marshal Chance Thorn. Another robbery goes down and a teller and one of the robbers are killed. He has no names, little descriptions for the gang, and almost nothing to work with. Can he solve the mystery of he lady bank robber or will it be his first defeat?

Alone on the merciless prairie, Caleb Miller faces a nightmare: his wagon train lies in ashes, slaughtered by Cheyenne warriors. With his young bride, Nettie, depending on him, he must outwit hostile tribes, master the brutal wilderness, and forge himself into a warrior worthy of the frontier. 1857, Western Prairies—Freshly married and dreaming of a homestead in the Sweet Water Valley, Caleb and Nettie’s hopes are shattered by violence. Now, survival means more than building a life—it means becoming the shield between civilization and chaos.

Chance Torn, U.S. Marshal based in San Francisco, is mixed up in the middle of a tough cattle rustling situation in the middle of Texas. He was assigned it due to his growing up on a cattle ranch. He had to fake it as an out of work cowhand and try to get hired on by the rustlers who seemed to be short handed. He got hired, and helped them rustle another three hundred head of market ready steers to go along with two hundred they had before. His big problem was how to stop this trail drive to the railroad cattle pens without getting himself shot full of holes by the twelve other riders and ...

“Do I need to remind you to take care of yourself?” she reminded him. “Don’t worry about me. I still hate to lose, dear,” Colton mildly admonished her. Colton Day does not get a chance to rest much as yet another threat has come to the rugged frontier town of Temple Ridge. Earlier in the year, former lawman Colton defeated a killer gang and then thwarted a group of kidnappers. Now, Birch Simmons has come to town and killed Temple Ridge’s Mayor Huck Flinton. But bringing the corrupt rancher Simmons to justice will be a monumental challenge. This challenge naturally falls on ...

Reed Morrow is happy making a living hunting buffalo on the Kansas plain. But he makes a change after he finds his best friend with a bullet in his neck. He’s turning his rifles away from the buffalo herd and training them on the ruthless outlaw that pulled the trigger – Bradshaw Devlin. Bradshaw failed as a buffalo hunter. But he’s starting to make a fortune from his new trade – cold murder. Following the buffalo herd closely, Reed finds bloody echoes of Bradshaw’s rampage along the trail. Reed thinks he’s alone in his hunt. Until he meets Celia Arnold. Celia’s family has ...

Hunting the men who did it. One by one. After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood. Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice. As Lucas uncovers an ocean of pain left behind by the gang, he also finds ...

After his service in the Union Army, Damon Jarret’s only goal is to fulfill a promise he made to his dead brother-in-arms and return an heirloom to his lost kin. But the Oregon Trail is long – and it’s just as rabid as the war he left behind. Before setting off, Damon joins the Union Pacific side of the immense transcontinental railroad project and makes his way across a frontier filled with new settlers braving the isolated landscape, hostile Indians, and… men who want to tempt and swindle railroad workers. Men like Harris Gill. Gill’s cheated his way into corrupted fortunes from...

From the day he was orphaned until he ended up in the silver mines at White Pine, Nevada, Blaze Mowbray has only known the merciless frontier. Thanks to the protection of his adoptive mother, lawlessness and degeneracy have always been just out of reach. Now Blaze has no choice – at sixteen, he’s leapt into the fire of an outlaw’s world. When the silver is gone, money becomes scarce and company big shots like William Montgomery hire outlaws like Jed Scanlon to maintain the bloodstained bones of his business empire and recoup his mounting debts. Jed Scanlon. He’s insane, and he’s ...

Star Holiday is on the run. Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery. Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger. Star is the only person that sees justice has been served. On trails and rails, Star battles across the tormented Great Plain to get to her aunt and uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Freedom and peace are on the horizon. Now, the law is on her trail. U.S. Marshal Duke Horne always gets ...

Steep mountain climbs, Indian raids, and lonely New Mexico roads bathed in murderous heat – Crow Woodruff has seen it all. But he’s never had an ex-boss try to shoot him dead. Tired of being treated like a slave, Crow leaves Lawrence Bain’s freighting company and soon finds himself in charge of his own. Now, Bain is losing his fortune. He’s desperate to regain his domination of the supply routes and all the people he abuses for to maintain a life of luxury. With their bitter past fueling his desire to triumph over Bain, Crow refuses to put his mules back in the stall. It’s not ...

U.S. Marshal Chance Thorn gets an assignment to solve the problem of a fifty thousand dollar train robbery of Treasury one hundred dollar bills somewhere outside of Sacramento, California. Chance, home based in San Francisco, gets to Sacramento and digs into the case. It soon develops into much more than a mere train robbery and he is head over six-gun into a counterfeiting scheme that has netted the gang hundreds of thousand of dollars. It’s his job to find the stolen money and now to close down and prosecute the counterfeiters. It’s a double mystery that he has to work hard trying to ...

Someone is killing lawmen, killing them slowly and sadistically. Deputy U,S. Marshall Chance Thorne, assigned to San Diego to catch a couple of bank robbers, is now under orders to find the killer. Convinced by evidence that it's a women he's after, he decides that wearing his badge is the best way to lure her into the open. But will the hunter become the hunted?

Deadfall tracks Charlie Yazzie, Thomas Begay, and Harley Ponyboy into unfamiliar territory. When a family member unexpectedly dies, a debilitating sense of loss overcomes our friends on the reservation. The ties that have bound them begin to unravel. What witch's evil is at work? Is the bond forever broken? Or is there a connection to the ancient past that might bring this malevolent aura to an end?

A frantic young girl flees the reservation to escape the horrors of abuse at the hands of her adoptive family. Despising her white father they blame for the death of the girl's mother. The man is driven out only to be found dead along a lonely stretch of dirt road. Suffering through a long and desperate struggle on the back streets of Albuquerque, the girl somehow manages to survive, and against all odds, eventually claws her way up from the depths of degradation to a life of success beyond her wildest imagining.

He is the most cruelly dangerous opponent the Derby Man has ever challenged: Wesley Bryant, now the crime lord of San Francisco. Darby smashes through the sword-wielding Chinese Tong warriors who protect Bryant's vicious web of vice, but Bryant escapes to launch his most ruthless scheme - stealing the vast wealth of Alaska for his own empire of evil.

¡Prepárate para una emocionante experiencia con esta nueva historia que trae de regreso el clásico Libro Vaquero! Con una serie Neo-Western cargada de acción y aventuras, serás testigo de un mundo postapocalíptico en el año 2100, donde la humanidad se enfrenta al borde de la extinción tras múltiples pandemias y experimentos médicos que han causado una infertilidad masiva.

En un mundo extrañamente parecido al nuestro Roland Deschain de Gilead persigue a su enemigo, el hombre de negro. Roland, solitario, quizá maldito, anda sin descanso a través de un paisaje triste y abandonado. Conoce a Jake, un chico de Nueva York pero de otro tiempo, y ambos unen sus destinos. Ante ellos están las montañas. Y mucho más allá, la Torre Oscura....

Las autoridades mexicanas y del estado de Texas organizan una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número posible de indios. Es el Grupo Glanton, y tienen como líder espiritual al juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel. Nunca duerme, viola y asesina niños de ambos sexos y afirma que nunca morirá. Todo cambia cuando los carniceros de Glanton dejan de asesinar indios y empiezan a exterminar a los mexicanos que les pagan. Se instaura así la ley de la selva, el terreno moral donde la figura del juez se convierte en una especie de dios arbitrario.

Situada en 1949, en las tierras fronterizas entre Texas y México, Todos los hermosos caballos se centra en el personaje de John Grady Cole, un muchacho de dieciséis años, hijo de padres separados. Tras la muerte de su abuelo decide huir a México en compañía de su amigo Lacey: allí se encontrarán con un mundo marcado por la dureza y la violencia.

En un valle remoto, oculto entre la cordillera de los Andes, se encuentra «País de los ciegos»: un pueblo donde todos sus habitantes han perdido la visión. Cuando un aventurero llega a sus tierras, luego de una expedición fallida en las montañas, la vida de los pobladores—tan apacible y ordenada hasta ese momento—da un vuelco inesperado.

Ocho años después de su última novela, Baricco regresa con un western excepcional y trascendente. El sheriff Abel Crow tiene 27 años y ya es un personaje de leyenda. Sus dotes innatas como tirador —su disparo preferido es "el Místico", uno doble, cruzado y simultáneo, con ambas manos, sobre blancos distintos—, no podrán evitar, sin embargo, que en un momento crítico se replantee el sentido de la existencia.