Ralph Compton Shotgun Charlie

Name: Ralph Compton Shotgun Charlie
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781501913266

Author: Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/07/2018

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

ODD MAN OUT The Prequel to THE HUNTED! Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught alive, Big Charlie will soon swing for the crimes. He makes a daring escape, determined to track down Haskell and the gang and prove his innocence. Hot on Charlie's heels, a mysterious marshal and a posse of angry townsmen track him into the High Sierras, far to the north. Weaponless and with a vicious winter storm closing in, Big Charlie must find the killers and thieves before the seething posse turns vigilante and hangs him high.

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 David on August 05, 2018

"Shotgun Charlie" by Matthew P. Mayo (a Ralph Compton novel) was a good hunt-'em-down western. Charlie is a big kid: a down-on-his-luck teenager when he gets swept into the nefarious orbit of a blood thirsty killer. To right wrongs, he is forced into a deadly manhunt through a blizzard in the Sierra......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on September 02, 2023

i don't read them often but every now and then i enjoy an old fashioned Western. i don't like Ralph Compton as much as Louis L'amour or Zane Grey but he'll do. interesting story line and i was rooting for Charlie all the way.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on January 18, 2017

A pretty fair western until the ending which leaves to many unanswered questions and is kind of a jumbled up mess. Too bad. Story is of a young man who gets in with the wrong crowd and is accused of a murder he didn't commit.......more

Goodreads review by Jacquelin on February 18, 2024

I like a western here and there but this one didn’t really keep me engaged. I like the idea of it but I felt like it dragged on too long and could have been better.......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on November 16, 2015

Young man's adventure Good kid left alone _ just trying his best to do right caught up in company of some bad men.......more