Smoke Wagon, Brett Cogburn
Smoke Wagon, Brett Cogburn
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Smoke Wagon

Author: Brett Cogburn

Narrator: Bradford Hastings

Unabridged: 10 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

Spur Award winner and bestselling western author Brett Cogburn crafts a post–Civil War railway thriller.Last stop on the train ride to hell.Welcome to Ironhead Station, Indian Territory, where the train tracks end and the real action begins. The hell-on-wheels construction camp is the final destination for hard-drinking sinners, gamblers, and outlaws. And woe to the man who tries to clean it up.Morgan Clyde is a former New York City policeman and Union sharpshooter who lost everything in the Civil War. But he’s still got his guns and his guts. Some folks say he is meaner and tougher than the Devil himself. Which is why the owners of the MK&T Railroad hired Clyde for one hell of a job. They plan to extend the rails through Indian Territory, connecting Missouri and Kansas to Texas … But the ornery citizens of Ironhead Station want to keep things just the way they are. They’ve already killed the first two lawmen who tried to tame their town. Now they’ve put together a welcome wagon to greet Clyde, including one half-mad preacher, one hillbilly assassin, and twenty train-robbing bushwhackers. They’re laying plans to stop the railroad dead in its tracks—along with their new lawman.There’s just two things the folks of Ironhead Station didn’t take into account: you can’t stop the wheels of progress. And you can’t stop a legend like Morgan Clyde.

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 Joe on November 29, 2020

Good, reliable western where good guys win. I enjoyed this book and could just picture John Wayne playing Morgan Clyde.......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on December 31, 2021

Smoke Wagon by Brett Cogburn Morgan Clyde #1 Well written, action packed, Western with a legendary hero starring as the lead character – Morgan Clyde is bigger than life but bleeds like any other man. I was swept into Ironhead Station along with our hero. It is noisy, dirty, filled with the desperate......more

Goodreads review by HornFan2 on December 28, 2021

Thanks to netgalley.com and Kensington Publishing for the advance arc copy for my honest review. Smoke Wagon was my first read by author Brett Cogburn that had his name as author on it and pretty sure he's another piece to the puzzle as to who is ghost writing for the William W. Johnstone brand. What......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette on February 03, 2022

I gave this book as high as two stars for the fast-paced action and vivid detail, and as low as two stars for the racism and sexism riddled throughout. This was my first time reading a western and I was left feeling relatively disappointed. Maybe I am just too much of a modern-day feminist to fit in......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui on January 09, 2022

In Brett Cogburn's Smoke Wagon (Pinnacle Books 2021), Book 1 in the Morgan Clyde Western series, Morgan Clyde has a reputation as a fearless gunslinger with a bias for justice enhanced by a maverick streak. He’s usually hired by desperate people to clean up lawless situations, willing to look the ot......more


Quotes

“Readers who enjoy tall tales built around real history—and aren’t turned off by the sight of a bit of blood—will enjoy this read.” Booklist

“Page-turning excitement and fast-paced action…A must-read for western novel enthusiasts. The author creates a rich and powerful picture.” Historical Novel Society