THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Bestselling Western novelists William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone have created a new hero of the Texas frontier: Jess Casey, cowboy, lawman, gunfighter.
“STAY THE HELL OUT OF FORT WORTH.”
Those were the last words uttered by a dying man who was the boomtown’s most recent sheriff. Rail-thin and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Jess not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff, inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hell’s Half Acre, the wide-open, deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier.
Hell’s Half Acre is home to Kurt Koenig and his gang-run empire of booze, prostitution, and wholesale slaughter. For Koenig, the only good lawman is a dead one, and he puts a pretty price on Jess Casey’s head. For Jess Casey, that means war. Against him are the frontier’s fastest draw and a host of murderous triggers. On his side are decades of rock-hard Texas living, a couple of ne’er-do-well deputies, and the good sense to do all his talking behind the barrel of a fast-blazing gun…
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- ISBN10 1432847546
- ISBN13 9781432847548
- Publish Date 1 April 2018 (first published 31 January 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wheeler Publishing Large Print
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 341
- Language English