Hot Lead, Cold Justice

Hot Lead, Cold Justice is the fifth book in the Caleb York series. Lucas Burnham and his fellow outlaws ride into Trinidad, NM, and plan to rob the local bank after the disappointed haul from a bank robbery in Las Vegas. Burnham also wants to kill and settle a long-standing debt with Sheriff York. A......more

The character of Caleb York was created by Mickey Spillane for his friend John Wayne. He had developed a screenplay for the Duke’s production company, perhaps a vehicle for John Wayne to star in as well, although another actor may have eventually been tapped. That screenplay, unfortunately, was neve......more

Another great entry in the Caleb York series. It's the winter of the Big Die Off out west, and there's even a blizzard in New Mexico. Everybody is snowed in, trying not to freeze. That's the exact time a former member of Quantrill's Raiders comes to town. It seems Trinity is a perfect place to lay lo......more

Readers of a certain age who are familiar with Mickey Spillane’s creation of hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer may not immediately think of him as being associated with the western genre. As co-author Max Allan Collins notes in the introduction to his latest release, Spillane created a western chara......more

This one gets bumped up one star for authenticity. Let me throw out a brief introduction to the series before we get to that. First, Caleb York was a character Mickey Spillane created for John Wayne. He wrote a screenplay that was never produced. Caleb York has been a detective, a hired gun, a bount......more