Gunpowder Express

Name: Gunpowder Express
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Brett Cogburn
ISBN: 9781980068242

Author: Brett Cogburn

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey

Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/31/2019

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

TIME TO MEET THE WIDOWMAKER Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail-a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy and desperate for money, Newt joins three other guards-and a passenger, Jenny Silks, a stubborn firebrand with her own stake in seeing the delivery through. But waiting on the Gunpowder Express is Irish Jack O'Harrigan and his band of outlaws. There's not a soul alive he wouldn't think twice about putting six feet under. But he's never traded lead with the man known as Widowmaker . . .

About Brett Cogburn

Brett Cogburn was reared in Texas and the mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. He was fortunate enough for many years to make his living from the back of a horse, where on cold mornings cowboys still straddled frisky broncs and dragged calves to the branding fire on the end of a rope from their saddle horns. Some folks are just born to tell tall tales. Growing up around ranches, livestock auctions, and backwoods hunting camps filled his head with stories, and he never forgot a one. In his own words: “My grandfather taught me to ride a bucking horse, my mother gave me a love of reading, and my father taught me how to hunt my own meat and shoot straight. Cowboys are just as wild as they ever were, and I’ve been damn lucky to have known more than a few.” The West is still teaching him how to write.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jacqui

In Brett Cogburn's Gunpowder Express (Pinnacle 2019), Newt Jones may be famous as the 'widow maker' but right now he’s just broke. He agrees to fight the town of Vulture's local tough guy for a $100 purse--not much but he needs the money. The problem is, when it looks like he'll win, the bully cheat......more

Goodreads review by Denice

Written by a descendant of a great Western legend, you will expect a great story set in an authentic background with characters to match. That is what you get in Gunpowder Express. Circumstances can force a man to make a decision he might have shied away from if things were different. Our hero finds......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

This review originally published in Looking For a Good book. Rated 3.5 of 5 Everyone in the Arizona Territory who eyes an easy way to make a payout knows that Vulture City is the home to a prosperous gold mine. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has bee......more

Goodreads review by David

It's easy for me to see why this author has been nominated by the Western Writers of America for the Spur award. For me, it is the historical/technical accuracy that makes his stories so realistic. I'm impressed by his ability to insert historical figures and places into his tales. I like the fact t......more