Ralph Cotton
81) Killers of Man
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"In a chaotic blast of gunfire, the James Gang fled a posse's attack - and the infamous Jesse threw his cousin Jeston Nash a hoard of stolen cash. But dodging the law with thirty thousand dollars in a dusty carpetbag is a risky proposition. Hoping to lie low in the mountains of the Northwest, Jeston and his partner, Quiet Jack, find themselves on a journey into the dark heart of human nature - and deadly animal instinct....
Jeston Nash is used to...
82) Price of a Horse
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Ralph Cotton spins another epic tale of guns and grit in the wake of the Civil War, a journey through a world of outlaw justice and the men who lived and died for it. Sure, it would've been easy killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. No man takes a .44 round square between the eyes and survives. But Jeston Nash only wants his prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail out of the New Mexico badlands. Together again with Quiet Jack, Nash is...
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Old ways and new clash in head-on confrontation: When journeyman hit man Ray Dylan agrees to look in on Sami Bloom, former mistress of a deceased Canadian crime financier, he realizes he must keep his profession a secret. What he doesn't realize is how difficult that is now that he has fallen for this warm-hearted beauty. While he struggles with the idea of confiding to her about his secret past, Dylan learns that Sami Bloom has some secrets of her...
84) Powder River
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In 1868, as U.S. Cavalry begins another romp towards manifest destiny in the heart of Indian land, the Sioux Nation is ripped apart by one tribe's angry death throes and another tribe's greed. Jeston Nash, Quiet Jack Smith and a mysterious black man named Big Shod find themselves in the midst of Chief Red Cloud's war. They come looking to sell some stolen horses to the cavalry and find themselves fighting against outlaws, warriors and the U.S. government...
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Jeston Nash bears a striking resemblance to his cousin Jesse Woodson James of Clay County Missouri. After killing a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston meets his cousins, Jesse and Frank, and joins them to fight in Quantrill's guerilla forces. Later, after the war, he rides with the James-Younger gang as they invent their special brand of bank and train robbery. All the while, Jeston seeks vengeance against Daniel Zanone of the Free Kansas Militia...
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When Chicago hitman Ray Dylan started out he was one more young professional struggling to get ahead of the pack. But he knows his world is about to change quickly when he takes on a job for high-level KGB elitist Leonid (The Professor) Volkov, founder of a unique Cuban-Russian spy community operating out of southern Florida. After Volkov double-crosses him and tries to have him killed, Dylan must take on the entire criminal spy operation even as...
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In a hail of thunder and gunfire, Jeston Nash fled a new Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He'd won his gamble with Quick Quintan Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garret's still rang in Nash's ears...somewhere, someday, they would meet again... Jeston Nash learned about robbery from his cousin, Jesse James. But it was the wild outlaw Billy...
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Adventure, action and dark humor galore, delivered Ralph Cotton style, in his fictional take on the real-life DEA - FBI joint Operation Swordfish, a covert effort launched by the two agencies in the early 1980s. Meet Eddie Vango-Chicago gambling debt collector for the Outfit, the lovely Leslie Wright and ex-con Delbert Moss as they make their way through the ranks of South Florida Drug Lords and take a giant share of the underworld's operating capital...
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Gunman's reputation novels volume 2
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p2004
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8 sound discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cray Dawson is on his way home, having just made a name for himself in a gang-busting shootout. He is now revered as one of the heroic gunmen who live their lives by their own credo, out on the frontier of civilization. Although Dawson doesn't want to be known as a gunman, he keeps getting mistaken for one. In a time when most people shoot first and ask questions later, Dawson may never get the chance to prove he's no gunslinger.
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Gunman's reputation novels volume 5
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p2010
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7 sound discs (8.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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After Cray Dawson sets out to stake his claim in Black's Cut, Montana, he learns his old friend Fast Larry Shaw faked his death to escape his notoriety as a gunfighter. But as Dawson soon discovers, his own prowess with a six-shooter could come back to haunt him as well.
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p2005
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7 sound discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When CC Ellis is mugged by a group of trappers, he manages to blast two of the thugs before being severely wounded. Left for dead at the edge of a creekbed, he's found by a young boy named Dillard. CC is nursed back to health by the boy's mother, Callie. To repay his debt, he will help her fend off the malicious advances of a corrupt and sadistic preacher named Jessup who has long sought to claim her as his property.
93) Justice
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Ranger series (Ralph W. Cotton) volume 3
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c1999
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313 p. ; 18 cm.
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Renowned Arizona lawman Sam Burrack journeys to Bannett to put a stop to the rampages of the vicious Half Moon Gang, a band of ruthless, cold-blooded killers led by Doss Edding, the son of a wealthy local rancher.
94) Bad river
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Ranger series (Ralph W. Cotton) volume 40
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2022.
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387 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is back-and hot on the trail of the worst desperados in two countries Following a tip from a prisoner in Yuma Penitentiary, Ranger Sam Burrack is riding to the Mexican Valley to hunt down the Cowboy Gang, notorious bandits who have topped the Most Wanted list for the past year. The crooks have fled to Rio Malo and settled in under the protection of corrupt town officials. Now, with new recruits including the infamous Russian...
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p2010
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6 sound discs (6 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a band of drovers stumbles upon the goods that were left behind after a botched robbery, they decide to do the moral thing and take the money to its rightful owner. But there's an outlaw after the prize, and it'll take the gunslinging know-how of Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack to keep the money truly safe.
96) Summers' horses
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p2013
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6 sound discs (6 hr., 47 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Horse trader Will Summers is known for his ability to intimidate just about anyone. When the infamous Bendigo Brothers steal Summers' horses, they can't imagine the trouble they've just gotten themselves into. Tracking the men like a bunch of animals, Summer will make sure they're marked with his own special brand--one they'll never forget.
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In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to find their sister-who left home to avenge their father's death over a year ago. Farm life hasn't prepared the twins for the rough-and-tumble cow towns west of Missouri. And...