Ash Tallman

3 primary works

The Highbinders

by Matt Braun

Published 1 April 2007

In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand--and holding up the railway.

Turning to Alan Pinkerton's Chicago detective agency, the railroad robber barons hired the perfect agent to penetrate the settler's organization, a man who had learned a spy's trade in the Civil War. Tall, debonair, and pleasure-loving Ash Tallman can fight when he has to, lie when he needs to, and make love when he wants the right kind of woman on his side. But as Tallman enters the lush San Joaquin Valley in the company of a risk-taking beauty, he finds a fight with no clear battle lines, no sure enemies, and only one way out--by hunting the killers who are hunting him...

Crossfire

by Matt Braun

Published 13 September 2004

They'd killed five men already, and stole a quarter of a million dollars in silver and gold. Now, a band of vicious thieves thas drawn the best man that Wells Fargo can send: the rangy, mysterious Chicago-based Pinkerton agent named Ash Tallman. An operator who works with a pleasure-loving beauty who goes by many names and does her best work in the least amount of clothes, Tallman is heading to Red Rock, Arizona, territory. In the shadow of the towering Rico mountain range, hard case highway-man are plotting their next hold-up - and will hurt as many people as they can along the way. Ash and his lady, both going deep undercover, quickly find their way inside the strange, vicious outlaw band, but that's only the beginning. For while the killing goes down in Red Rock, the planning takes place in Tucson. And that's where two outgunned Pinkertons must face an evil all it's own.

The Wages of Sin

by Matt Braun

Published 1 April 2007

With outlaws wreaking havoc left and right, a cow town in Texas is on the brink of becoming a ghost town. That's when I's time to call in Chicago-based Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine. Going undercover as a handsome, charming drifter, Ash is always ready with his gun and popular with the ladies. And the lovely, vivacious Viv plays the role of a fervent evangelist, offering salvation - with the promise of a sweeter reward - to any sinner who can give her clues to the whereabouts of the man so bent on revenge he gladly kills anyone who crosses his path. But his outlaw has never before encountered the likes of Ash Tallman.