"He was raised by the mountain man called Preacher, and he was said to be the fastest gun alive. Until he hung up his gun belts to raise a family. Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man and a force of nature. But Lee Slater and his gang of low-life desperadoes didn't know that. Stirring up a motherlode of trouble for the retired gunslinger was Slater's first mistake. Shooting Smoke Jensen's wife Sally was his second"--Page 2 of cover.

Rancher Smoke Jensen thought he was rid of Sundance years ago. After the cruel young gunslinger plugged one of Jensen's men in the back, Jensen punched him into the dust, then shot his ear off. But ever since, Sundance has been plotting revenge.

"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that local waitress Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Problem is, the outlaws are heading toward the Red River--straight into Indian Territory. That's where...

William W. Johnstone's Mountain Man series towers above the landscape of Western fiction, taking readers into the heart and soul of a man who once lived on the wrong side of the law--and now is willing to die for justice.

Smoke Jensen was once the fastest draw in the West. He was also tired of taking on every tinhorn upstart out to make a reputation. So Jensen hung up his .45s for good. Or so he thought. . .

When A War...

After a Mexican revolutionary crashes the border, killing 22 innocent U.S. citizens and stealing livestock, including 200 of his horses, Smoke Jensen, going where the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers cannot, wages war on the Colonel and his ruthless banditos.

"On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...

William W. Johnston's breathtaking Mountain Man series set the standard for Western adventure. Now a new saga begins as the adopted son of Smoke Jensen takes his place on the unforgiving and violent American frontier... BORN TO BE BRAVE. Matt Cavanaugh was nine years old when a band of outlaws slaughtered his family... Now Matt is 18, honed by hardship, steeped in survival and carrying the last name of the man who raised him: Smoke Jensen. With Smoke's...

When his oldest enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with whiskey, guns and bullets, and then orders them to attack the Assiniboine tribe, Preacher, along with a handful of bloodied survivors, rises out of the ashes to take his revenge.

Riverboat gambling is a blast, until hot-headed Chance Jensen finds out just what he won in his final hand against a Missouri River gambler named Haggerty. Chance's "prize" is a beautiful Chinese slave girl named Ling. The twins, Chance and Ace, want to set Ling free and keep their cash, but at Fort Benton, Ling gives them the slip, robbing them blind. When they hunt her down in Rimfire, Montana, she's with Haggarty, lining up their next mark.

A chuckwagon cook who's also deadly with a pair of six-shooters, Dewey "Mac" Mackenzie is a man who has no qualms filling men's bellies with food--or lead. Finally cleared of a crime he didn't commit, he's able to enjoy the fruits of his labor on the trail without looking over his shoulder. But even his best served grub can be spoiled by those with evil appetites . . . After traversing California and finding nothing much to his liking, Mac Mackenzie...