Ralph Compton A Wolf In the Fold

Name: Ralph Compton A Wolf In the Fold
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781436117326

Author: Ralph Compton, David Robbins

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/14/2008

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

The Ralph Compton series of USA Today best-selling Westerns has garnered a well-earned reputation for hard-hitting tales sounding with thundering hooves and explosions of gunfire. In West Texas, Lucius Stark is regarded as a no-good killer with nothing to say in his favor. But when Stark goes tender for a woman he's hired to kill, he's shot in the back and left with a burning desire for revenge.

About Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claire on January 19, 2023

I liked this book so much I’m sad that I didn’t buy other books by this author! You can definitely tell that the author knows what he’s doing and knows how to keep readers engaged. He’s like John Grisham for westerns, you hang on every word and you’re entertained the whole way through. I haven’t rea......more

Goodreads review by Nolan on April 11, 2021

Lucius Stark is a hired killer. $500 before the job and $500 after. One doesn’t pay him the last 500 after the job they are the ones who die also. He is hired to kill family. Kills a couple of them, some lawmen, some town people. Not a nice guy. He ends up going up against a woman who is as bad as h......more

Goodreads review by Dustin on February 27, 2025

I’m not sure what I expected going in, but I definitely didn’t expect it to be this damn good.......more

Goodreads review by Dan on January 18, 2022

I haven't read a western like this where the main character is so vicious. Rather a unique idea which earns bonus points from me.......more

Goodreads review by Skjam! on June 21, 2016

This book appears to be one of those "dead author's notes ransacked by publisher" things; which is not to say it's bad, but it's unclear how much of this story is the big-name author and how much is fill-in by the substitute. The book itself is more from the "spaghetti western" morally grey school of......more