Ralph Compton Shadow of the Gun

Name: Ralph Compton Shadow of the Gun
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781440760198

Author: Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West

Series: John McBride #2

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/11/2009

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton series drives forward with this tale of a man looking to abandon his past and carve himself an honest future. John McBride purchases a restaurant in the eerily named town of Suicide. But marauding Apaches, rampaging outlaws, and even the townsfolk are driving tensions sky high-and McBride isn't exactly a welcome newcomer.

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 Jerry on October 31, 2016

Strange story Sort of weird collection of characters doing all sorts of unexpected things ; settlers, outlaws, detective, rich woman and helpers.......more

Goodreads review by Nolan on October 01, 2021

Second book in the series of John McBride the idiot. Amazing all the stupid things this guy does and lives. The only smart thing he does is at the end of the story.......more

Goodreads review by Peter on November 16, 2017

Second in a 3 book series. Comfortable western reading adventure.......more

Goodreads review by DocHolidavid on February 17, 2022

Part of the beauty of this Recorded Books addition is the excellent of the reader, Peter Bradbury. His authoritarian air brings out the excellence of Joseph A. West's story telling. Being a man of the American West, born and raised just north of Dodge City, I find West, from Scotland, captures the m......more

Goodreads review by Little on February 19, 2016

I am not normally a western fan but a few writers seem to jump out and grab me. Ralph Compton writes a quick paced and very historically accurate book. Nice read with great characters. Very recommended......more