Synopsis

Kate Coldane has sweated blood for this saloon, and she won't let it go down without a fight. Silas Atwood may be the richest rancher in Hudspeth County, but that doesn't give him the right to push her around. When Atwood sends one of his goons to cause trouble at her watering hole, Kate's son Rusty guns him down. It may have been self defense, but Atwood is the law, and that means Rusty has to run.

Rusty flees to the home of his uncle, Pearlie, who straps on his six-gun, intending to return to Hudspeth County and clear his nephew's name. But Smoke Jensen, the mountain man, won't let his friend ride into certain death. With a handful of brave souls, Smoke storms the town, ready to wage war against more than two dozen of Atwood's blood hungry killers. Drunk with power and afraid of no man, Silas Atwood believes Smoke Jensen can be stopped with brute force alone.

Problem is, Silas Atwood doesn't know Smoke Jensen...

About William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling western writer in America, and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over fifty million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as "the greatest western writer of the twenty-first century."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heitham on March 14, 2019

Excellent reading......more

Goodreads review by Orville on September 05, 2017

Very good read.......more

Goodreads review by Barbara Lee Wood on July 21, 2017

LET FREEDOM PREVAIL Tyrannical acting men and women are nothing new to the newly growing United States. Many immigrants left Europe to escape this process of ruling. Smoke Jensen, Sally his wife, Cal and Pearlie are on the "Freedom Road" because of these types of bullying the town of Etholen. The town......more

Goodreads review by Claudia on April 19, 2020

The honesty of the Mountain Man Smoke, I first read this name with. Preacher. I shared that book with a friend, then when I could afford the e books I hunted up the books with Preacher or Smoke. I enjoy Mr Johnstone's western and was so sorry to read of his passing. Yet his books are reissued and I h......more

Goodreads review by Daniel Visger on January 04, 2019

Onward I continue to develop at being forced to write on and on about a fictional book that I read for entertainment so in conclusion. It was pretty good. I only noted one error that really was not worth mentioning, but to get past this nonsense i just add up words. Cal was used instead of Sally.I Now......more