Nolan's Law E-Book

Lee Lejeune

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

Beschreibung

After his mother and father die, and the girl he hopes to marry turns him down, Jude James decides to abandon his rented homestead and ride for the West. Before he can leave, though, Josh Appleseed – a young ex-slave – arrives on a stolen horse seeking sanctuary. They ride West together. The unscrupulous owner of his farm sends his gunslingers in pursuit which leads to a showdown in which one of the gunslingers and a tracker-dog are killed. As they continue on, Jude and Josh fall in with Brod Nolan and his gang. Nolan claims to rob the rich to feed the poor, but with Nolan there is more than meets the eye, and the two friends find themselves embroiled in a series of bloodcurdling encounters in which they must kill or be killed. Will they emerge unscathed?

Leseprobe

Nolan’s Law

After his mother and father die, and the girl he hopes to marry turns him down, Jude James decides to abandon his rented homestead and ride for the West. Before he can leave, though, Josh Appleseed – a young ex-slave – arrives on a stolen horse seeking sanctuary. They ride West together.

The unscrupulous owner of a farm sends his gunslingers in pursuit which leads to a showdown in which one of the gunslingers and a tracker-dog are killed.

As they continue on, Jude and Josh fall in with Brod Nolan and his gang. Nolan claims to rob the rich to feed the poor, but with Nolan there is more than meets the eye, and the two friends find themselves embroiled in a series of blood-curdling encounters in which they must kill or be killed. Will they emerge unscathed?

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Nolan’s Law

Lee Lejeune

© Lee Lejeune 2016

First published in Great Britain 2016

ISBN 978-0-7198-2111-0

The Crowood Press

The Stable Block

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Ramsbury

Marlborough

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This e-book first published in 2016

Robert Hale is an imprint of

The Crowood Press

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

CHAPTER ONE

Jude James was looking west as he had many times before. Somewhere over the horizon lay a land of great undulating plains, beyond which were high impenetrable mountains capped by snow. Jude had soared across those plains and snow-capped mountains many times before in his imagination, but now, suddenly, they seemed to beckon more urgently; he knew he had reached a crossroad in his life and either had to turn back or go on towards those beckoning plains and crags.

Jude was just twenty years old. He had reddish hair that hung down almost to his shoulders, so that some of his friends called him ‘Ginger’ James and others, more disparagingly ‘Carrot Top’. Jude didn’t mind the disparagement too much. He reckoned he had quite a lot going for him. He was around six feet tall and as strong as Hercules. He was a good wrestler and had been bright at school, though he hadn’t stayed there long enough to find out just how bright he was.

Trouble was, his pa had died three years back after being trampled by a big farm horse and his ma had teamed up again with a big bruiser of a man who cared for his drink a little too much, especially the hooch whiskey he got from a neighbour who ran a still in his barn. That hooch whiskey was lethal and it had been known to blind a man who drank too much of it. One of the neighbours had stumbled out into the dark on one freezing night after a skinfull and disappeared completely. They had found him stiff as a chopping board in a ditch a couple of days later. Old Hennessey, who ran the still, was hauled out protesting and given a thorough beating by the farmer’s brother a week later but that didn’t stop the hooch drinking. Ed Shadwell, Jude’s mother’s new partner, continued, falling into a drunken stupor for days on end. He was no use to any man or woman, or beast, for that matter.