Blood on the Trail

Name: Blood on the Trail
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Terrence McCauley
ISBN: 9781666187625

Author: Terrence McCauley

Series: Jeremiah Halstead Western #1

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/29/2022

Categories: Fiction, Western, Crime

Synopsis

Silver Cloud, Montana. A mining town welcome to all seeking to make their fortune. And a place where a lawman has to watch his back before some hardcase empties his pistol into it.

Deputy US Marshal Jeremiah Halstead is escorting notorious outlaw John Hudson across the territory for trial when he's ambushed by a pack of Hudson's men anxious to rescue their partner from his custody. Halstead puts the blast on them, but outnumbered and outgunned, he has little choice but to hole up in an old mining town known as Silver Cloud, Montana. It's a place where he can keep a lock on his prisoner while figuring out how to get past Hudson's gang alive.

But the folks in Silver Cloud are none too happy playing host to the lawman or his kill-crazy prisoner. Unable to trust the sheriff to back his play, Halstead finds himself standing alone against Hudson's gang as they slip into town, recruiting gunmen to help free their leader.

Except for Ed Zimmerman. He's spent his whole criminal life in John Hudson's shadow. He wants Hudson dead and buried so he can become the leader of the gang. And if he must, he'll put everyone in Silver Cloud six feet under—including Deputy US Marshal Halstead . . .

About Terrence McCauley

Terrence McCauley is an award-winning writer of crime fiction, thrillers, historical fiction, and westerns. His western fiction debut, Where the Bullets Fly, received a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award and was named Best New Western Paperback of the Year by True West magazine. His short stories have been featured in Thuglit, Spinetingler Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Big Pulp, and other publications. A Spur Award and ITW Award nominee, he is a recipient of the Silver Medal for Historical Fiction from the Military Writers Society of America. He is a member of the New York City chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the International Crime Writers Association, and the Montana Historical Society.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 3 no 7

“Blood on the Trail” is set in the old west, the “Wild West,” where horses are fast and so are the bullets. The action unfolds in the open country with the horses, the pursuit, the bullets, the prisoner and the outlaw gang. This is Montana, not yet a state in March 1841, and William Henry Harrison i......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui

In Terrence McCauley's Blood on the Trail (Pinnacle Books 2022), first in the Jeremiah Halstead Western series, young Jeremiah Halstead is a new Deputy United States Marshall, tasked with bringing in the ten-member+ Hudson Gang, a brutal determined band of stone-cold killers who has been terrorizing......more

Goodreads review by Laur

Really enjoyed this gritty western. Jeremiah Halstead is a strong, believable and likable character. Fast paced, lots of action and Rodney J. Turner does an excellent job of narrating in the audio version (although there seemed to be a couple of missed edits I.e. repeat phrases.) However, a great sta......more

Goodreads review by Abibliofob

Blood on the Trail by Terrence McCauley is a brand new series about the new and young deputy marshal Jeremiah Halstead. He has moved from Texas to Montana and is bringing the leader of an outlaw gang to justice when trouble starts. I was surprised by the pace in this western and pleasantly so. I als......more

Goodreads review by HornFan2

Thanks to netgalley.com and Kensington Publishing for an advance ARC copy for my honest review and I also purchased it from amazon.com. This was my first read from Terrence McCauley, really like his writing style a lot, definitely will check out his other writing and can't wait for the next Jeremiah......more