The Snowy Range Gang and Vendetta Gold: Two Complete Novels - Softcover

Blakely, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076539166X ISBN 13: 9780765391667

Publisher: Forge Books, 2017

Synopsis

A retired detective pairs up with a sworn enemy to solve a series of countryside murders in The Snowy Range Gang, and an atoning criminal goes on a dangerous adventure seeking lost treasure in Vendetta Gold: two memorable novels from Spur Award-winning author Mike Blakely.

The Snowy Range Gang
Claude Duval thought he was through with rustlers and killers when he left Texas for Wyoming. But the retired livestock detective soon finds ranch hands turning up dead and cattle missing. It looks like the work of Lone Wolf Wolverton, who murdered Duval's partner years ago. But Lone Wolf, who's done his time and gone straight, rides to Duval's ranch looking for a chance to prove he's being framed. Out of leads, the lawman reluctantly accepts help from the man he's sworn to kill, and the unlikely pair teams up to track down the real rustlers and killers, the Snowy Range Gang.

Vendetta Gold
A bloody family feud sent Roy Huckaby to a dusty Texas prison for three years. Now that he’s out, he vows to follow the straight and narrow and to ride alone into a solid new life. But when a dying vaquero gives him a treasure map, the opportunity is too exciting to pass up. Roy starts out on a path he hopes will lead to incalculable wealth, only to find it's bordered with dangerous pitfalls--and unexpected romance.

This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.

About this title

About the Author:

MIKE BLAKELY is the author of several novels of the West, including Comanche Dawn and Moon Medicine. His novel Summer of Pearls won the Spur Award for the Best Western Novel in 2001. Blakely makes his home in Marble Falls, Texas.

From Publishers Weekly:

At the beginning of this slow-moving western, Texas range-regulator Claude Duval is planning to retire from tracking rustlers and settle in Wyoming. Then former client Bob Steck asks for help recovering 100 headstet sing/eed of Brahma bulls just stolen; Bob believes the bulls are being moved toward Wyoming by Lone Wolf Wolverton, an old foe of Claude's. Claude and Bob are joined by rancher Ike Lafferty, who is furious when his few, recently acquired Brahmas are stolen, too. Beautiful Correen Galloway, newly widowed by the rustlers, next joins the motley posse and is soon followed by Wolverton himself, innocent and eager to clear his born-again name. But the bad guys, the Snowy Range Gang, get the drop on the white hats, leaving Claude and his cohorts marooned horseless in the mountains. Blakely ( The Baron of the Sacramentos ) gets them out of their mess with little aplomb to conclude this dull tale, marked by sentimentality, cliche and made-for-TV plot devices.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Forge Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 076539166X
• ISBN 13: 9780765391667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448