Shadow Of A Hang Rope - Softcover
Life for John Hawk is looking up when he is offered a half stake in a stageline business. But will his fraudulent past catch up with him?
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Lauran Paine who, under his own name and various pseudonyms has written over 1,000 books, was born in Duluth, Minnesota. His family moved to California when he was at a young age and his apprenticeship as a Western writer came about through the years he spent in the livestock trade, rodeos, and even motion pictures where he served as an extra because of his expert horsemanship. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Second World War. Paine s Western fiction is characterized by strong plots, authenticity, an apparently effortless ability to construct situation and character, and a preference for building his stories upon a solid foundation of historical fact.
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John Hawk, a young cowboy, sees a beautiful young woman, Joyce Porter, and knows she’s the love of his life. But, with only $100 in his pocket, he has no prospects. Then he overhears a couple of shady characters talking about some horses to be exchanged at a place called Hunter’s Spring for a down payment of $100. John gets to Hunter’s Spring first, gives the man with the horses $100, and sells the—obviously stolen—herd for $600, enough to buy into the local stage line. He soon learns that the stage line is run by a crook, and that’s the late Paine’s amusing MacGuffin: everybody’s a thief, even respectable businessmen. Everybody but Joyce and her father, who’s a judge, but John works hard, improves the line with sensible changes, and, when he confesses his crimes to Joyce, he’s surprised to find that she’s still on his side. Of course, there’s a showdown between the crooks trying to go straight and the crooks who feel they’ve been cheated. An easygoing western from a master of the genre. --John Mort
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- PublisherSagebrush Large Print
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1785410059
- ISBN 13 9781785410055
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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