Harps For a Wanted Gun E-Book

Ty Walker

• Herausgeber: Robert Hale
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A tall youngster searches for a job, riding across the infamous desert known as Satan's Lair, toward the isolated town of Apache Pass. As he reaches the midway point of the perilous ocean of sand, rifle bullets start to rain down on him. Cy Harper spurred and tries to outride the deadly rifle fire. For hours the dozen unknown riders chase his high-shouldered black stallion and keep firing. What Harper doesn't know is that his thoroughbred horse looks just like a mount ridden by a deadly hired gunman known as 'Lightning' Luke Cooper. Mistaking Cy Harper for the lethal 'Lightning' Luke, Judge Brewster and his men keep chasing and firing at Harper – they want the bounty that rests on Cooper's head. One of their bullets catches Harper in his muscular shoulder. He slumps, draped over the neck of his trusty mount as death keeps firing at him. Is this the end for an innocent drifter?

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Harps for a Wanted Gun

A tall youngster searches for a job, riding across the infamous desert known as Satan’s Lair, toward the isolated town of Apache Pass. As he reaches the midway point of the perilous ocean of sand, rifle bullets start to rain down on him.

Cy Harper spurs and tries to outride the deadly rifle fire. For hours the dozen unknown riders chase his high-shouldered black stallion and keep firing.

What Harper doesn’t know is that his thoroughbred horse looks just like a mount ridden by a deadly hired gunman known as ‘Lightning’ Luke Cooper. Mistaking Cy Harper for the lethal ‘Lightning’ Luke, Judge Brewster and his men keep chasing and firing at Harper – they want the bounty that rests on Cooper’s head.

One of their bullets catches Harper in his muscular shoulder. He slumps, draped over the neck of his trusty mount as death keeps firing at him. Is this the end for an innocent drifter?

Harps for a Wanted Gun

Ty Walker

© Ty Walker 2016

First published in Great Britain 2016

ISBN 978-0-7198-2143-1

The Crowood Press

The Stable Block

Crowood Lane

Ramsbury

Marlborough

Wiltshire SN8 2HR

www.crowood.com

This e-book first published in 2016

Robert Hale is an imprint of The Crowood Press

The right of Ty Walker to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Dedicated with love to ‘Ocean’ Sue.

PROLOGUE

The rapidly expanding Wild West was filled with every breed of wanted man. The majority of them had prices on their heads and were wanted either dead or alive. Most of these men were deadly killers, some were bank robbers. A handful of the more adventurous among them had perfected the art of robbing trains of their precious cargoes. To the bounty hunters who earned their blood money by hunting them down like dogs it did not matter which crime was committed: the reward money was exactly the same.

Not all wanted men were outlaws however, as the young Cy Harper soon found to his cost. The innocent drifter, like so many other young men after the war, had returned home to find that the very way of life he had fought for so gallantly no longer existed. Having nothing left apart from his thoroughbred black stallion and six-shooter, he headed deeper into the West in search of something most of his contemporaries would never find again.