The Warlords - Softcover

Braun, Matt

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312981732 ISBN 13: 9780312981730

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003

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WHILE WORLD WAR I WAS EXPLODING IN FOREIGN LANDS
It's 1915. In Europe, men are dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment is growing for war against the Kaiser. And in Mexico, an explosive plot is set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous rebels.

A NEW WAR WAS BLAZING ALONG THE RIO GRANDE...
Amidst the chaos of Pancho Villa's revolution, a force of embittered Tejanos has crossed the Rio Grande, burning ranches, killing Texans, and gathering fighters in its wake. For the Germans, the goal is to paralyze America. For a daring Special Agent and a Texas Ranger, the mission is to go deep behind enemy lines and cut out the heart of an astounding conspiracy―before the West is drawn into a bloody war of its own...

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The Invasion of Texas-1915!

In Europe, men were dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment was growing for war against the Kaiser. And in Mexico, an explosive plot was set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous rebels. Amidst the chaos of Pancho Villa's revolution, a force of embittered Tejanos has crossed the Rio Grande, burning ranches, killing Texans, and gathering fighters in its wake. For the Germans, the goal was to paralyze America. For a daring Special Agent and a Texas Ranger, the mission was to go deep behind enemy lines and cut out the heart of an astounding conspiracy-before the West was drawn into a bloody war of its own...

Based on actual historical events, The Warlords is an epic adventure from our finest chronicler of the American frontier.

"Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the Old West to life." -Terry C. Johnson, author of The Plainsman series

"Braun tackles the big men, the complex personalities of those brave few who were pivotal figures in the settling of an untamed frontier."-Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom

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Praise for Matt Braun

"Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier fiction." -Elmer Kelton

"Matt Braun is one of the best!" --Don Coldsmith, author of The Spanish Bit series

"He tells it straight-and he tells it well." --Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom

"Matt Braun has a genius for taking real characters out of the Old West and giving them flesh-and-blood immediacy." -Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

"Braun blends historical fact and ingenious fiction...A top-drawer Western novelist!" -Robert L. Gale, Western Biographer

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