Bøger af Chap O'Keefe

While Silver Vein's cheering citizens watch Misfit Lil confirm her reputation as "Princess of Pistoleers" in a gala shooting match, Yuma Nat Hawkins and his gang rob the bank in the near-empty town, gunning down the feeble opposition in cold blood. Patrick "Preacher" Kilkieran, a visitor at the hotel, witnesses the robbery but makes no move to interfere. He soon adds more crimes to his record, striking a mysterious deal with a renegade Indian and committing a brutal assault on Lil Goodnight's pretty waitress friend, Estelle, before disappearing into the wilderness. Lil vows retribution. She knows tracking down Kilkieran will be no easy job, but she's going to give it one hell of a try! "Misfit Lil . . . What a terrific name for a character, eh? This book belongs to an endangered species: the Western. As for the story: totally professional, as you would expect, and a lot of fun. The author knows how to do the job. Ms Lil has appeared before, and doubtless will again." Grumpy Old Bookman (Guardian Top 10 blogger)

The rebel is Tom Tolley, ex-Confederate fighter in the bloody Civil War. Returning home to the family farm in the wilds of Arizona, he expects the enmity and the killing to be over. Instead he is met with flying lead!The heiress is Mary-Ann, indulged only child of millionaire Huey J. Charters. Will her willfulness and fondness for pranks be her downfall, or can they be turned into a feisty courage as events take a gruesome turn?Sparks fly when Tom, dispossessed of his farm, meets the impish heiress. He is landless - worse, an unforgiven grayback for whom there is no pardon in the untamed country he calls his home. But the pair are thrown together against a hostile town, a scheming murderer, and the mysterious Jed Carbone, a pitiful drunk who knows more than he's saying …"You're hurting, Tom, I can tell," Mary-Ann tells Tom when they are held captive by four ruthless rogues possessed by gold fever. "We've got to get away from this pack of maniacs. We must!""It wouldn't work," he mutters. "We both know it. It wouldn't work …"The best of the West loaded with five-star suspense, adventure, romance, action, thrills!

Kyle Hardy was the drifting kind, and looked it. A saddle-bum, folk reckoned when he rode into Sweetwater Valley. But he came with a job to do. And before he could act, guns blazed on Main Street and Kyle was pitched into a bitter conflict.On one side was Big Bart Brannigan, cattle baron and ruthless land grabber; on the other, pretty young Verity Tyler, courageously standing by her disabled rancher father.In one tempestuous night, Kyle was framed for murder and faced a crazed lynch mob - and the whole hellish set-up came to an explosive climax!

Ex-Pinkerton detective Joshua Dillard, gun for hire, took on the job of troubleshooter for a French theater company touring the West. Just routine bodyguarding, he supposed … till he met the amazing Gisèle Bourdette, a publicity-hungry superstar ahead of her time, choking the 1880s New World puritans on their censorious piety.Joshua committed the blunder of intimate liaison with an eager Gisèle, falling foul of her leading man and lover, Henri Rabier-Roget - a talentless hunk scourged by jealousy and the morphine habit.Meanwhile, ruthless Borderland bandit "Loco Louey" Velarde was after the actress' unbanked takings, transported at her quaint insistence in gold coins.And sensitive Lorena, daughter of domineering rancher and cow-town opera house founder Bennett Maxwell, resisted an unwelcome suitor.

Ex-Pinkerton detective Joshua Dillard, gun for hire, took on the job of troubleshooter for a French theater company touring the West. Just routine bodyguarding, he supposed … till he met the amazing Gisèle Bourdette, a publicity-hungry superstar ahead of her time, choking the 1880s New World puritans on their censorious piety.Joshua committed the blunder of intimate liaison with an eager Gisèle, falling foul of her leading man and lover, Henri Rabier-Roget - a talentless hunk scourged by jealousy and the morphine habit.Meanwhile, ruthless Borderland bandit "Loco Louey" Velarde was after the actress' unbanked takings, transported at her quaint insistence in gold coins.And sensitive Lorena, daughter of domineering rancher and cow-town opera house founder Bennett Maxwell, resisted an unwelcome suitor.

Sheriff Sam Hammond was nudging fifty, conscious of his years and sometimes wondering just why he'd become a lawman in the first place. Then the troubles really began.First, he narrowly escaped with his life after a moonlight gun battle with a trio of rustlers. Meanwhile, abrasive range detective Herb Hopkirk had ridden into town. Gun-handy, Hopkirk shot dead a rash cowpoke, crippled Sam's young deputy, Clint Freeman, and pestered Miss Sarah, pretty daughter of rancher John Snyder.A man-hungry widow and a bunch of newspaper cuttings about a mysterious bank robber dubbed Dick Slick added to Sam's headaches. Was it time for him to quit the peace-officer business before he wound up dead?