REVENGE
IN TASCOSAby PAUL THOMPSON
There is saying in Western lore that has Missouri
as the "Mother of Outlaws." But it is
Texas, the "Paramour of Outlaws," to
where desperados most often run. With her
wide-open vastness and loosely patrolled
frontiers, Texas is the coquette which loves and
harbors the bad boy that mother could no longer
contain. Being a Texan, Marshal Thompson is fully
aware of this when he reads President Hayes' wire
ordering him to Texas and a den full of vipers
otherwise known as rustlers and land grabbers.
Revenge In Tascosa paints the darkest side of the
old west, sending the lawman into a Texas-sized,
bloodthirsty feud. Along for the ride is Thompson
long-time partner, James "Buffalo"
Blackburn. Both are men of deeply held
convictions, and neither one realizes that at the
end of the trail in Texas are the killers of
Blackburn's wife.
As for Tascosa--the local ranchers have grown
tired waiting for the Texas Rangers who are few
in number and embroiled in Southern boarder
turmoil. Without hope of the Rangers or a
response from Washington, the ranchers are
banding together in a citizens uprising against
the killers and rustlers that have been shooting
them, stealing the cattle and pillaging their
homes. Enough is enough, and the Texans are
getting ugly about it.
In the midst of this pathos is Sherilea
Bessmer--a woman whose escape from five months of
hell at the hands of her outlaw captors has
fueled the same desire now simmering throughout
the rest of the Texas Panhandle; a call for
bloody vengeance of biblical proportions.
With teeth gritted and pistols hot, Marshal
Thompson and Blackburn blur the line of justice
while riding full into the face of a bloodbath
from which neither man may come out the same--if
they both can even come out alive at all.
Narrated in the authentically seasoned dialect of
a southwestern storyteller, the Marshal Thompson
series pays tribute to the thrilling and
heartbreaking hardships of our nation's western
history. Accurately reconstructing the sweeping
landscapes of the old west, these novels document
the times and historical locations largely
ignored by writers who have not been there. Paul
L Thompson actually has been there, and you will
feel like you were there, too.
GENRE
Fiction-Western
FORMAT
Trade Paper
DIMENSIONS
0.75 x 8.22 x 5.29
PAGE COUNT
245
ISBN-10
0967635497
ISBN-13
978-0967635491
RETAIL
$14.95
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PAUL L. THOMPSON
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