Ralph Compton Tucker's Reckoning

Name: Ralph Compton Tucker's Reckoning
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Compton
ISBN: 9781470337063

Author: Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo

Narrator: Mark Zeisler

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Taking up the mantle from legendary Western author Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo delivers a searing adventure that rockets along like a runaway stagecoach. In Tucker's Reckoning, Samuel Tucker suffers the deaths of his wife and daughter, then takes to the bottle in paroxysms of grief. After drifting from his native Texas to Oregon, Tucker witnesses a murder, little knowing that the aftermath might give him a new reason to hope - if it doesn't spell his doom.

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 Bethk on April 27, 2015

I read this book as part of a class where there was an assignment to read a fiction book outside of any genre (I) normally read. I was pleasantly surprised by this! I haven't read a western novel since junior high, and I was not thrilled with it then. This one has a western setting, but is mainly a m......more

Goodreads review by Kenneth on May 23, 2017

An excellent western, my Dad would have loved this one, and I did too.......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on October 01, 2017

This was an easy read and interesting story. Tucker’s tragedy sent him into a tailspin and he ended up in a community with it’s own stories of greed and corruption. Good little story......more

Goodreads review by Tommy Adams on January 07, 2022

Tucker’s Reckoning This book had a lot of action and a lot of dirty dealings I sure enjoyed reading I have always Ralph Compton thanks Tommy a.......more