Bøger af Peter Brandvold

SADDLE UP FOR A ROUGH RIDE IN THE WILD WEST. Bad luck has driven half-breed Yakima Henry and Sheriff Jack Kelly into the town of Dead River during a severe mountain winter. Yakima must weather a killer who's hell-bent on making the town as dead as its name. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.

ONE HELL OF A BLOOD-SPLASHED, ROUGH WESTERN TALE. Half-Cheyenne and half-white Yakima Henry won't tolerate incivility toward a lady, especially the comely former widow Beth Holgate. If her new husband doesn't stop giving her hell, Yakima may make her a widow all over again. "In the realm of slam-bang action writing in the Old West, the rest of us can't hold a candle to Peter Brandvold."-J. Lee Butts, author of Lawdog.

How far will men go for revenge and money? Half-breed Yakima Henry steps in to help an older man being bullied by outlaws - and becomes a target of both bandits and lawmen alike. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.

BULLETS FLY AND BLOOD PAINTS THE DESERT RED. To get out of jail, Yakima Henry accepts a proposition from the wealthy Mr. Cleve O'Shannon and his wife. They need a hard man to lead them through a bloody hell to save their family-and their fortune. For his freedom, Henry agrees. But freedom won't matter if he's not alive to enjoy it...  "In the realm of slam-bang action writing in the Old West, the rest of us can't hold a candle to Peter Brandvold."-J. Lee Butts, author of Lawdog.

SADDLE UP FOR A HARD RIDE IN THE WILD WEST. Yakima Henry has been dealt more than his share of trouble - even for a half-white, half-Indian in the west. Now he's running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, and thinks he may have finally found his share of peace and prosperity. But a man from both their pasts is coming - with vengeance on his mind. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.

ONE HELL OF A BLOOD-SPLASHED, ROUGH WESTERN TALE. Yakima Henry, half Indian and half white, ventures south of the border to save an old flame's brother from a Mexican prison - only to incur the wrath of deadly Apaches, scalp-hunting Rurales, and zealous revolutionaries."In the realm of slam-bang action writing in the Old West, the rest of us can't hold a candle to Peter Brandvold."-J. Lee Butts, author of Lawdog.

"Yakima Henry left his ranch in the White Mountains for supplies and rode right into a bloody shootout between Saber Creek townsfolk and a gang of banditos who just robbed a stagecoach. But what really riles Yakima is the banditos making off with his prized stallion, Wolf, and a pretty saloon girl" -- Back cover.

SADDLE UP FOR THE WILDEST, SEXIEST, BLOODIEST PETER BRANDVOLD SERIES YET!Half Indian and half white, Yakima Henry considers himself lucky to have any job - even if it means just sweeping up the local brothel.But when four hombres attempt to carve up one of the house girls, Yakima gives them a taste of their own medicine with his Arkansas Toothpick. Now, he's become the girl's protector, and is on the run from a vicious bounty hunter. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.

Lifelong loner Yakima Henry unexpectedly befriends Paul Cahill, an old prospector with roots in a once-wealthy Eastern family. When Cahill is mortally wounded by men stalking his and Yakima's trail, Cahill asks Yakima to travel to northern Dakota Territory and deliver a letter and a belt stuffed with money to his estranged son. On his trip north, Yakima befriends two young sisters whose mother has died and who, escaping an abusive stepfather, are trying to make their way north to their grandparents' farm along the Cannon Ball River. Heading into owlhoot-infested Dakota Territory is no nap in the shade for Yakima alone but traveling with two complicated young women is no picnic, either. When an Irish countess seduces Yakima, enflaming her husband's jealous rage, and the bounty-hunting assassin called The Reverend stalks Yakima's and the girls' trail, Yakima comes to believe that when his friend Paul sent him north to Dakota, he'd really been sending him hell-bound!"The west has a bonafide superhero and his name is Yakima Henry."

Meet Dag Enberg, a brand-new western hero from the author of the Sherriff Ben Stillman Westerns, Peter Brandvold - king of the gritty, sexy, hard-driving western!In this violent, sexy western double, Dag Enberg is a shotgun rider for Arizona's Yuma Stage Line. When a group of outlaws led by Cougar Ketchum kidnap Enberg's pregnant wife and threaten to kill her if Enberg doesn't turn over a valuable strongbox, Enberg is forced to go against his instincts. He turns over the box without a fight. The owner of the strongbox, Logan Cates, believes that Enberg has thrown in with Ketchum. When Cates turns his sites on the shotgun rider, a bloody war breaks out . . . as well as a desperate chase into Mexico for the stolen gold and Enberg's woman.For a while, Dag Enberg manages to hold onto his job as shotgun rider for the Yuma Line. He soon returns to his old brawling ways, however, and gets himself fired when he raises a drunken ruckus in a saloon and beds the beautiful . . . and off-limits . . . Zenobia Chevere.

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE WILD AND WOOLY, BEST-SELLING WESTERN SERIES!Legendary Montana lawman Ben Stillman is transporting a prisoner, a former friend of his, back to the town where the man and his gang had robbed a bank, to stand trial. Stillman's also packing the stolen loot.Along the way he picks up a young white woman and her Indian boy who are on the run from a pack of blood-thirsty human wolves led by a prominent area rancher. The rancher wants revenge on the woman, because she killed the man's son in self-defense.Stillman finds himself on the run from not only the woman's enemies but from his prisoner's gang, as well. Turns out his prisoner double-crossed his partners, and now they want him and Stillman dead…and the money back in their hands.Stillman's Gun is book 13 in the fast-moving, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.

LOVE AND DEATH, BULLETS AND BLOOD . . .Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence.But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland's daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss's daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead.Now Stillman has Johnny locked up in his jail at the courthouse. The judge wants to try the boy pronto and won't recuse himself though under the circumstances Stillman knows he should.Meanwhile, a bank robbery in Clantick interrupts the wedding of Doctor Clyde Evans and Katherine Kemmett, giving the roguish doctor just enough time to reconsider his affection for not only bachelorhood but the pretty young waitress, Evelyn Vincent.

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE WILD AND WOOLY, BEST-SELLING WESTERN SERIES!When Doctor Clyde Evans is kidnapped from his home in the middle of the night to tend to a wounded outlaw, Sheriff Ben Stillman's problems are only just beginning. Stillman tracks the doctor to a remote cabin deep in the Two-Bear Mountains. He springs the doctor, shoots the outlaws, and confiscates the bank loot. He also arrests a beautiful young outlaw, Hettie Styles, who promptly puts a bounty on Stillman's head.Compounding the sheriff's problems, his old foe Jacob Henry Battles rides into town with a steel hook replacing the arm Stillman shot off years ago, before sending Battles to prison. Dying from consumption, the vengeance-seeking old outlaw challenges Stillman to a deadly game of cat and mouse.For fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, you'll love the tenth novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.

ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE IN NORTHERN MONTANA! When Sheriff Ben Stillman's deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots a young woman who was about to shoot Stillman in the back, Leon takes the outlaw girl's lifeless body back to her mountain ranch to turn her over to her family. He feels the need to explain himself, to personally account for the girl's death.His explanation falls on deaf ears. Old Watt Hollister sends his wild sons led by his eldest boy, Nash, out on the trail to exact revenge for their poor dead sister. Wounded, McMannigle is alone and on the run in the Two-Bear Mountains, hunted like a calf-killing mountain lion.Ben Stillman isn't at all happy when he gets wind of his friend's fate. In fact, when you mess with Stillman's friends or his family, it's damn well guaranteed you have all-out war on your hands.Stillman's War is the ninth novel in the fast-moving, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.

BEN STILLMAN'S WILD RIDE!When Sheriff Ben Stillman accompanies Judge John Bannon and friends to a wedding in Sulfur, Montana Territory, he aims to have a nice long weekend of rest and respite from law dogging. But Angus Whateley has other plans. The crazy ex-Confederate has just been released from prison, and he's out to avenge the hanging of his cattle-rustling sons--hangings ordered by Bannon.Backed by a gang of the most violent and vicious members of his family, Whateley strikes when the judge takes the stagecoach back home. Soon, Stillman finds himself fighting a wheel-bound war against clan of zealous killers out for bloody revenge...FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING SHERIFF BEN STILLMAN SERIES!

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN!The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series continues...Ben Stillman thought he'd finished dispensing hard justice in the town of Clantick in the Montana Territory. Then a courtesan and her latest client are found dead with their throats slit, and the citizenry demand immediate action. With a rising body count and no headway in the investigation, the townsfolk are ready to take the law into their own hands...In his career as a lawman, Stillman is used to the sudden violence of the frontier. But now he'll have to implement his detective skills from his years as a Pinkerton to determine the link between the victims, uncover the motive--and identify the killer...

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE VIOLENT, SEXY, HARD-HITTING WESTERNThe Classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series Begins...Playing poker, smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey-retirement was treacherous business for ex-lawman Ben Stillman. The best of life seemed to be past, but then the past came looking for him...The son of an old friend rides into Ben's life with a plea for justice and a mind for revenge. Up on the Hi-Line in Montana, a rich Englishman is rustling ranchers out of their livelihoods... and their lives. The boy suspects these rustlers have murdered his father, Milk River Bill Harmon, and the law is too crooked to get any straight answers.But can the worn-out old lawman live up to the legendary lawman the boy has grown to admire?For fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, you'll love this first novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE VIOLENT, SEXY, HARD-DRIVING WESTERN!The sixth novel in the hard-boiled, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Shambeau, finally had enough of the white man's hatred.Whatever it was, Sheriff Ben Stillman now has a murder case on his hands-and, as the law dictates, he must hunt down and hang the outlaw.But nobody knows the land better than Shambeau. He could be anywhere. Then again...nobody can track a bloodthirsty killer like Sheriff Ben Stillman. And there's no hiding from his swift brand of justice.The deeper trouble for Stillman is-is this really justice? Does Shambeau really deserve to die, or was the old trapper just following the unwritten law of the old frontier?For fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, you'll love this sixth novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series."Make room on your shelf of favorites; Peter Brandvold will be staking out a claim there." -Spur Award Winning Author, Frank Roderus

A High-Powered, Action-Packed Western Novella Featuring Sheriff Ben Stillman...Ben Stillman is on his way back to his hometown of Clantick after chasing illegal whiskey peddlers. He's eager to be back in his warm home with his wife and young child. But when he runs into a saloon owner who's been robbed, his best doxie killed, the sheriff of Hill County finds himself on the trail of two young thieving killers, with a hard winter storm bearing down.The saloon owner himself, John Stock, rides along with Stillman. Stock isn't much help. He's a loudmouthed drunk, and he ends up getting his horse shot out from under him.Still, he and Stillman plod deep into the Missouri Breaks, on the trail of the two doxie-killing thieves. Their trail leads them to Perdition Bend-a notorious outlaw hideout. There, surrounded by wooly-eyed outlaws with itchy trigger fingers, Stillman feels like the lone jackrabbit at a rattlesnake convention...

A MURDERED LAWMAN AND A FRONTIER TOWN WITH A DEADLY SECRET…Sheriff Ben Stillman knows that every lawman could face sudden death. But that doesn't ease his anger over Marshal Charlie Boomhauer's brutal murder. And ol' Charlie's shoes have already been filled by his brash, young deputy--who isn't exactly out shaking the bushes to find Charlie's killer or killers.The new marshal is blaming the murder on a band of Gypsies who moved north--or was it south? It's becoming clear that the town of Lone Pine has something to hide--and that Stillman is outside his jurisdiction. But the lawman's code says that you take care of your own. Ben isn't going home until he's served up some justice--whether it's by the rules or not.Once Upon a Dead Man is the seventh novel in the fast-moving, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN!The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series continues...Things have heated up since the last time Ben Stillman brought peace to Clantick, Montana Territory. It's been two years since he left to join the Pinkerstons, and now there's a group of bloodthirsty cowboys who think they own the town.When the ruthless desperados shoot down a helpless, feeble-minded friend of Jody Harmon, it's the last straw. Something's gotta be done. And Jody knows there's just one man for the job. Ben Stillman is returning to Clantick...and he'll have justice once more with a .44...

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN! The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series is back…After bringing in a band of horse thieves, Sheriff Ben Stillman would like nothing better than to go back home to his wife and wait out the winter storm that is blasting through the Montana mountains. But the storm is about to become the least of the legendary lawman's concerns.A vicious gang of murdering outlaws has taken refuge from the brutal cold and snow in a remote mountain ranch cabin--taking everyone inside hostage. And Stillman is the only chance they've got to get out alive. It's Stillman's duty to save them. But the hardened lawman is taking this much more personally--and for good reason.They have his wife, Fay, too.

FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE FAST-MOVING, HARD-HITTING, SEXY WESTERN ADVENTURE!The Classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series Continues...Sheriff Ben Stillman has enough of a hard time keeping the peace in the town of Clantick without having to worry about the likes of Matt Parrish. Since his father died, Matt has been responsible for the Circle P Ranch in the Two-Bear Mountains--and his hotheaded streak has been responsible for a lot of trouble with other ranchers...including his future father-in-law, Tom Suthern.Despite failing health and loss of profits, Tom refused to sell his spread to Matt, even with Matt about to marry old Tom's daughter. So when Matt is discovered in the presence of Tom's bullet-riddled corpse, people naturally assume he murdered the old man. Now, it's up to Ben Stillman to protect Matt from a trigger-happy posse and find the real killer--before it's too late and a powder keg of violence explodes in Three-Witch Valley…"Make room on your shelf of favorites; Peter Brandvold will be staking out a claim there." -Spur Award Winning Author, Frank RoderusFor fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, you'll love this fourth novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.

Of all the legends of the Old West, few are as stained with ink, blood, and bullets as the violent days of bounty hunter Lou Prophet. But what happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? Heaven knows there'll be hell to pay . . . THE DEVIL RIDES AGAIN After a hard night with his sometime lover Louisa Bonaventure-"the Vengeance Queen"-Lou Prophet decides to cool his heels at a local honky tonk. Things heat up fast when he defends one of the girls from a sadistic brute who also happens to be the deputy sheriff. And now Prophet is running for his life . . . WITH A BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD Heading south of the border to Mexico, Prophet isn't the only man marked for death. The young red-headed pistolero Colter Farrow has made an awful lot of enemies, too-and now practically every bounter hunter south of the Rio Grande is gunning for blood. For money. For fun. And, now, for Lou Prophet . . . "Here's a writer with hot, fast violence and the guts to write what he wants."-Tom McNulty, Dispatches from the Last Outlaw

In Lou Prophet's lawless West, justice comes from the barrel of a gun-his gun. Peter Brandvold's acclaimed two-fisted Westerns tell of the bloody days (and thrilling nights) of the bounty hunter called Prophet, and the dangerous woman he dared to love. . . . BLOOD AT SUNDOWN Lou Prophet and the deadly Louisa Bonaventure have torn a bloody swath across Dakota territory in search of the Griff Hatchley gang. When they finally catch up to them, an epic blizzard threatens to turn the Dakota prairie into a frozen hell. To bag their prey before the storm hits, Prophet and Louisa split up-and take separate paths towards damnation. DEATH IN THE SNOW Prophet's course takes him into a town packed to the gills with the deadliest outlaws that roamed the frontier, while Louisa gets caught in Sundown, a one-horse town where a hatchet-wielding maniac threatens to paint Main Street red. When spring's thaw comes, they'll find a city of corpses beneath the snow. And nobody gives a damn about the law . . . "Here's a writer with the hot, fast violence of the early Mickey Spillane and the guts to write what he wants." -Tom McNulty, Dispatches From the Last Outlaw