The Scorpion Trail

Name: The Scorpion Trail
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry D. Sweazy
ISBN: 9781980082538

Author: Larry D. Sweazy

Series: Josiah Wolfe #2

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/07/2020

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Starting your life over in a big city like Austin, Texas, is no easy task, especially for a man raised in the country
like Texas Ranger Josiah Wolfe. Now, after uprooting his son to the state’s capital, Josiah must leave Austin to meet up
with the rest of the Texas Ranger Frontier Battalion. But before he can get to work, Josiah has to make a quick stop to
check on his old friend Juan Carlos, who’s no stranger to trouble.

About Larry D. Sweazy

Larry D. Sweazy is the author of over fifteen novels. He won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Short Fiction in 2005 and for Best Paperback Original in 2013, and the 2011 and 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for the Josiah Wolfe series. He was nominated for a Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer award in 2007 and won the Best Books of Indiana literary competition in 2011 for The Scorpion Trail. He won he inaugural Elmer Kelton Book Award in 2013. In 2019, he won the Women Writing the West Willa Award for See Also Proof. He has published over eighty nonfiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queenâ€™s Mystery Magazine and several other publications and anthologies. He is also a freelance indexer, which also served as inspiration for the Marjorie Trumaine Mystery series. More information can be found at www.larrydsweazy.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara Lee Wood on October 20, 2017

WHERE IS SUZANNE DEL TORO A fast moving western that's moving into the nineteenth century. Texas is moving toward modernization and so are other states and territories. Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger and his only child Lyle and his nanny Ofelia who took care of his son while he was away on assignment for......more

Goodreads review by Forrest Dee Jeffcoat on November 23, 2018

You lost two stars... For two gross i.e. susceptible errors!! Shame on you. I hope it is from poor editing, If Not, I will tell you frankly that you have dissapointed a would be avid fan. One more time with you "Badger.." offering , you must assuredly deserve that; but no penney /word avariciousnous.......more

Goodreads review by Denise on December 16, 2017

A good book for fans of historical fiction (set in Texas in 1874). For precocious readers, be aware that there are adult themes (in addition to the violence, things like syphilis).......more

Goodreads review by Randy on April 05, 2011

Josiah Wolfe had moved his son to Austin and was preparing to join back up with the Rangers in the newly formed Frontier Battalion. He was looking for his friend, Juan Carlos, a man wanted by the law, but was innocent because it was in defense of Josiah's life. He wanted the man to watch over his yo......more