Reviews:"The Assassin feels like an old-fashioned Western. It has a solid plot and fascinating characters.The final shootout is thrilling and action-packed. Even though the plot is fairly simple, James has done an excellent job of building and maintaining suspense throughout the novel."-------Breenibooks ReviewsMatt Beck is a man hired to eliminate problems. So when the deadliest gunman in the West wanders into an Arizona town, the residents instantly fear one of them has be...

Brice Symon is a man who brings back outlaws one way...dead! If there's a price on your head you can bet that Brice Symon is not far behind. Symon takes on a young apprentice to help him take down the Keogh-Ashton gang in a move that very well may cost him his life. The Bounty Hunter is a fast paced story that has Symon tangling with outlaws, lawmen, and gunfighters

A small town sheriff arrests a man responsible for killing an innocent man in a card game. The murderer's father, a wealthy, ruthless land owner, uses his gang of gunfighters to try and get his son out of jail, putting the town in the middle of a huge battle. The sheriff is trapped and unable to get his prisoner out of town or any help in until a mysterious stranger rides into town. Is he the miracle the town's been waiting for? Or is he the newest gun in the powerful rancher's stable? The...

Ray Spencer has discovered information that the company he works for is falsifying their financial records. Unfortunately for him--they know it. He turns to his girlfriend for help, but will she help him escape? Or was she the one who set him up? He's framed for a murder, forcing him to go on the run from the law. A hit man is hired to kill him and the FBI is brought in to track him down. Who will find him first? Or will he be able to clear his name before either one finds him? He knows at...

Matt Beck is back as The Assassin in this short story collection. Day of the Assassin includes 3 short stories including:Noose for an Assassin-A crooked card game leads to Beck being thrown in jail. While in jail a lynch mob forms with the intention of stringing Beck up by his neck until dead. Will they succeed or will they string up the wrong man?Revenge of the Assassin-Someone takes a shot at Beck as he's riding to the town of Everwood. Beck goes to town and hunts down th...

Setting Up and Running a Therapy Business provides a succinct, practical, and accessible guide for counsellors starting out in private practice as well as for more experienced practitioners who would like advice on how to continue to attract a larger clientele.This second edition has been restructured to bring all the marketing chapters together to help counsellors understand a variety of ways of helping their business grow, and includes new material on using social media....

From the greatest western storytellers of our time comes a new twist on the legend of notorious outlaw Jesse James—who just might not have died on that fateful April 3, 1882.1942—Granbury, Texas. A ninety-five-year-old man walks into a recruiting office with the crazy idea to enlist—and an even crazier story. He claims to be the one and only Jesse James, the infamous bank robber allegedly shot by Robert Ford sixty years earlier. U...

In "Way of the Lawless," Max Brand crafts a riveting narrative that delves deep into the psyche of its fugitive protagonist, who traverses the unforgiving landscapes of the American West. With Brand's characteristic blend of vivid prose and eloquent dialogue, the novel explores themes of justice, morality, and the consequences of one's choices in a lawless society. The literary style of this work is marked by a cinematic quality, bringing to life not only the physical journey of the hero b...

Wanderer of the Wasteland, Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler. When Adam Larey confronts his younger brother Guerd about his gambling addiction, the latter is accidentally shot. A distraught Adam, believing he has killed his own brother, flees into the desert. He later learns that Guerd was merely wounded and returns to the loving arms of the beautiful girl. Made into a movie in 1924 and was the third feature film to be photographed entirely ...

Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern route was the best way to go, Harper t...

New York Times bestselling series: Stranded in the middle of a brutal range war, an innocent man may have no choice but to take sides . . .Smoke Jensen sat in a cave and boiled the last of his coffee. He figured he was in Idaho—somewhere south of Montpelier—but he was certain about only two things: he was cold and he was being hunted by a small army of men. Smoke knew why he was cold—it was winter. He just didn't have a clear idea of why anyone was after h...

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. ... Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling Edgar Wallace and especially Isaac...