Synopsis

Wes Stone was once a lawman. Then the Sandlin Gang shot down his father, known as The Gunfighter. Swearing vengeance, he takes up his father's guns. But little does he know that the odds are even more against him than he thinks--and that to get revenge for a dead man, he might have to die himself...

About Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Farhana on March 29, 2021

This is the second book in the Sundown Riders trilogy. And I'm going to just say it again..if you haven't read a Western novel - you need to. This was just as awesome as the first one. Look forward to the next one.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 09, 2010

I am hooked on Ralph Compton books. I plan to read them all.......more

Goodreads review by Hank on February 17, 2020

Purdy good read you varmints! Lots of bushwacking.......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on September 22, 2024

This is a classic Western with good guys, bad guys, and damsels in distress. A clean fun adventure.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on February 28, 2020

Part of a series, but is easy to pick up the gist of it. Wes Stone and his friend El Lobo have broken up a gang down Mexico way (in book 1?) and get asked by a friend of Wes' dad to help him out with another gang operating on his side of the border. Plenty of scrapes along the way, although the bad gu......more