Riding the Vengeance Trail E-Book

Jack Martin

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

Beschreibung

There was a time when Thomas Fury was happy. A young wife, a child on the way and a farm to tend had kept him busy, but he'd enjoyed the toil for he knew that he was building a future for himself and his family. That future, though, was shattered one afternoon when five riders, led by Luke Marlow, rode in. Soon gunshots rang out and Thomas Fury's world fall apart. Now Fury rides the vengeance trail, driven on by a desire to deal out justice to those who have destroyed everything that mattered to him. Fury will not stop until every one of those five men lies dead in the ground, for then – and only then – will he reach the end of the Vengeance Trail.

Leseprobe

Riding the Vengeance Trail

There was a time when Thomas Fury was happy.

A young wife, a child on the way and a farm to tend had kept him busy, but he’d enjoyed the toil for he knew that he was building a future for himself and his family. That future, though, was shattered one afternoon when five riders, led by Luke Marlow, rode in. Soon gunshots rang out and Thomas Fury’s world fell apart.

Now Fury rides the vengeance trail, driven on by a desire to deal out justice to those who have destroyed everything that mattered to him.

Fury will not stop until every one of those five men lies dead in the ground, for then – and only then – will he reach the end of the Vengeance Trail.

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Riding the Vengeance Trail

Jack Martin

© Jack Martin 2016

First published in Great Britain 2016

ISBN 978-0-7198-2133-2

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

This book is dedicated to my fellow Black Horse riders, who keep the spirit of the West alive.

And in memory of Randy Johnson, fan and friend.

‘Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.’

Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

ONE

‘Gutless is what you are,’ Jim Tanner yelled and crossed the room, peered through the slats at the window and then turned back to his son. He shook his head and ran a hand over the stubble on his chin. ‘You craven bastard.’

Ethan glared back at his father, holding the older man’s eyes with his gaze. ‘I ain’t no coward,’ he said. ‘Just not a damn fool is all. If I go out there Fury’ll shoot me down. I’ll have no chance. That ain’t cowardly, that’s just good sense.’

‘Pity you didn’t show that good sense when you started all this,’ Jim said and bit the end off a large cigar. He spat tobacco onto the floor, earning himself a look of reproach from his wife who sat in the far corner, a worried expression permanently plastered across her once beautiful face. She could tolerate her husband’s cussing but his vile habit of spitting was best done out of doors.

‘You and your damn fool friends started all this,’ Jim sucked the cigar to life, and released a fragrant cloud of smoke into the air. ‘Why, I should simply throw you out there to face Fury.’

‘That’s man’s an animal,’ Ethan said and tried to stop his hands from shaking. ‘He ain’t no ordinary man. That son of a bitch just won’t take killing.’