Everybody Has a Gun, William W. Johnstone
Everybody Has a Gun, William W. Johnstone
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Everybody Has a Gun

Author: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone

Narrator: Joshua Saxon

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/29/2025


Synopsis

Like any gunslinger with a bloodstained past, Jon Gage needs to keep moving to stay alive. Too many people know the legend of "Texas Lightning"—and too many people want him dead. Trying to keep a low profile, he stops at a supply post in Utah Territory to stock up before hitting the trail. There, he meets a wagon train of farmers from Kansas doing the same. They seem like good, decent folks, but they're about to make a very bad decision. The route they've chosen leads straight through the Chosen Valley. Which is like walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death . . .

Ruled by a notorious and powerful cult—known for their cruel and unusual punishments—the Chosen Valley is worse than a dead end. It's a trap. Especially for a wagon train of farmers, who are easy targets in a brutal ambush by black-robed zealots. Alerted by the gunshots, Gage tries to help the farmers by donning a robe and infiltrating the cult. What he learns shocks him. The cult plans to kill the farmers, steal their supplies, and force their children into slave labor. Gage is not about to let that happen—even if has to take on the entire cult himself.

Every one of them has a gun. But none of them are as fast—or as deadly—as Texas Lightning . . .

About William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling western writer in America, and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over fifty million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as "the greatest western writer of the twenty-first century."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janalyn, the blind reviewer on July 27, 2025

Everybody Has A Gun is the second book in The Texas Lightning book series by J and William Johnstone’s. In book 2 we find Jonathan Gage still trying to outrun his past or is he really just resigned to his future? He knows the death of the girl who he thought was a boy will haunt him the rest of his......more

Goodreads review by Denice on January 23, 2025

There is no such thing as a bad Johnstone western. Each series is built around main characters whose belief in the law and family is absolute, even if they've had to be reformed to get there. From Preacher, the original mountain man to the Jensen family to Perly Gates, to.....well, you get the point......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui on January 02, 2025

In William Johnstone's Book 2 of the Texas Lightning Western series, Everybody Has a Gun (Pinnacle 2025), it picks up where Texas Lightning's Book 1 (Hanging Party) left us. The story's hero, Jon Gage, is trying pretty hopelessly to leave his past as "Texas Lightning Fastest Gun in the Territory" be......more