Killing Mr. Sunday

Killing Mr. Sunday
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 239
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628159359

A LEGENDARY GUNMAN IS MAKING HIS LAST STAND IN JAKE HORN'S TOWN . . . AND HE’S NOT AIMING TO DIE ALONE. Jake Horn once used his hands to heal—now the same hands kill. He was on the dodge for a crime he didn't commit when the town of Sweet Sorrow took him in and rewarded him with a badge he never wanted. Still, this out-of-the-way Dakota hellhole is a good place for a man to get lost in—until legendary gunfighter William Sunday rides up with a price on his head, followed by a parade of bounty hunters, criminals, and cold-blooded killers. A feared gun artist with a murderous rep, suffering from an illness he knows will soon claim his life, Sunday is determined to reconcile with his daughter before his own body does him in. Meanwhile, every human reptile in the territories is closing in for the kill, leaving lawman Jake no choice but a suicidal duty: to stand side-by-side with a dead man who has nothing left to lose.

Dakota Lawman

Dakota Lawman
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2005
Genre: Gunsmoke Series
ISBN:

Dakota Lawman: The Big Gundown

Dakota Lawman: The Big Gundown
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061741191

THE DAY OF JUSTICE IS AT HAND A talented healer forced to become a fugitive for a killing he wasn't responsible for, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the rough Dakota town of Sweet Sorrow—and in the tin badge that marks him as the local law. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand is bringing his demons home. As a doctor and a sheriff, Jake's witnessed death in all its dark guises—and he recognizes a murder when he sees one. But asking too many questions of the wrong people is asking for trouble, and suddenly expert killers are gathering with their sights on a lawman who's got a need to see justice done. The big gundown is coming, as relentlessly as the winter snow whipping across the prairie. And there's nowhere for a good man to hide when five shooters blinded by hate won't leave Sweet Sorrow until he's dead.

Dakota Lawman

Dakota Lawman
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061741183

Jake Horn was a healer -- until he was falsely accused of murder and had to run. Now the hands he once used to cure the ailing have a new purpose: wrapped around the handles of twin six-guns. A good man in a bad town Aptly named, the town of Sweet Sorrow, within the Dakota territories, is the kind of place that draws all manner of misfits, drunks, gamblers, and dreamers -- a perfect town for Jake Horn to get lost in. But a strange plague of madness, brutality, and murder seems to run rampant here -- and a slippery Texan named Roy Bean is pressuring Jake to bring a much-needed sanity to the lawless outpost. But accepting the job of Marshal could be the last humanitarian act Jake ever performs. Because thunder is rumbling on the horizon -- and a famous bounty hunter from Bismarck is rolling in on the evening stage, determined to collect the substantial reward being offered for bringing the fugitive Jake Horn in stone-cold dead.

The Last Law There Was

The Last Law There Was
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 235
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645401952

HARD JUSTICE CAN TURN A YOUNG MAN INTO A DEAD MAN HELLDOGS — Spitting fire and kicking up dust, the Comancheros ride like they're coming out of hell itself. At the head of the thieving, killing pack is scar-faced Rufus Buck, a man who gives no quarter—and takes the life of anyone who gets in his way. HERO — Gambler and gunfighter, lawman and friend to presidents and kings, Augustus Monroe is a hero with awesome courage and shooting skills. In the legends he's inspired, he stands for justice. In real life, can he match those legends? HARD RIDERS — Ivory Cade's a young man with no kin and the whole world spread out in front of him. Albert Sand is the son of a lawman brought down by Rufus Buck. With only an aging Indian and a drunken preacher on their side, Cade and Sand rode out from the Texas Panhandle to the Kansas plains in pursuit of vengeance, the mythical Augustus Monroe and... BILL BROOKS "HAS A KNACK FOR STORYTELLING." —Library Journal

Leaving Cheyenne

Leaving Cheyenne
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 234
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612327877

Quint McCannon would ride a thousand miles to find a woman—and the man who wanted her dead... MEN WENT CRAZY Quint McCannon had fought and survived the Civil War—and faced killers and madmen across the frontier. But nothing had prepared him for one brutal winter in Cheyenne. Or for a story told by a Texas Ranger: about a woman McCannon had once loved—who was now running for her life. With nothing left to keep him in Wyoming, with a Texas Ranger and a one-armed Denver dandy by his side, McCannon is riding out of Cheyenne, crossing Bill Cody's Nebraska, the Earp brothers' Dodge City, Bill Hickok's Kansas. But a thousand miles of dancing prairie grass, howling thunderstorms, whores, renegades, and murderers lie before him. For Quint McCannon, finding a woman on the run means going up against the ghosts of his own past and a bloodlusting killer—all the way to the Rio Grande.

Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow 

Last Stand at Sweet Sorrow 
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 232
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628159081

Sometimes fate rides a man down a violent road… Jake Horn was a healer—until he was falsely accused of murder and had to run. Now the hands he once used to cure the ailing have a new purpose: wrapped around the handles of twin six-guns. A GOOD MAN IN A BAD TOWN Aptly named, the town of Sweet Sorrow, within the Dakota territories, is the kind of place that draws all manner of mis­fits, drunks, gamblers, and dreamers—a perfect town for Jake Horn to get lost in. But a strange plague of madness, brutality, and murder seems to run rampant here—and a slippery Texan named Roy Bean is pressuring Jake to bring a much-needed sanity to the lawless outpost. But accepting the job of Marshal could be the last humani­tarian act Jake ever performs. Because thunder is rumbling on the horizon—and a famous bounty hunter from Bismarck is rolling in on the evening stage, determined to collect the substantial reward being offered for bringing the fugitive Jake Horn in stone-cold dead.

Catch Me, Kill Me

Catch Me, Kill Me
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 251
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645400689

Truth is, everybody’s going to hurt you: you just got to find the ones worth suffering for.—Bob Marley When Nina’s boyfriend Ray, uses her as collateral in a drug deal she realizes that you don’t know what love is until you’ve experienced what it isn’t. Bobby Lee, a gutsy boxer, is told by his corrupt manager to throw a big fight or pay a heavy price, with his life. Nina finds only one chance to get out of the situation her boyfriend Ray has put her into. And when the guy who holds her until Ray returns, rapes her then makes the fatal mistake of dozing off, well, she sees the gun and puts him to sleep forever. Bobby Lee’s pride won’t let him go out the way his manager wants him to. Instead he’ll take his chances and knocks his opponent out and goes on the run because he knows the price he’ll have to pay for the “betrayal.” It is a dark fate that brings together the boxer and the girl with a gun, a bag of cash and drugs as they race across the country just one jump ahead of men who would see them dead and buried. Jim Thompson fans will love this book

Pretty Boy

Pretty Boy
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 273
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164540806X

THE EPIC LIFE OF PRETTY BOY FLOYD Charles Pretty Boy Floyd became the FBI's most wanted man in America. A depression era young man out of the Oklahoma Hill country decided he no longer wanted to work as a field hand and common laborer. Everywhere in the Dirty 30s, men, and in one case, women (Bonnie Parker) had decided to use a gun to get what they wanted, and so did Charley. His first real job was that of robbing the Kroger Company Payroll Office where one of the women there described him as being "Just a mere boy—a pretty boy." The name stuck and from then on that is what the newspapers called him. His good looks didn't hurt with the ladies either and he ended up with both a wife and girlfriend clear up to the time of his death. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a personal vendetta against what he considered the scourge of the land and set his main Agent, Melvin Purvis to take down the most notorious of them, beginning with Johnny Dillinger who was ambushed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, thus moving Pretty Boy to the top of the list.