Ralph Compton the Law and the Lawless (A Ralph Compton Western) - Softcover

Praise for the novels of Ralph Compton

"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore."--Publishers Weekly

"Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey...thrilling stories of Western legend."--The Huntsville Times (AL)

"If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton."--Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)

The USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series continues...

When a bunch of ruffians rob a bank in the sleepy town of Alpine, it’s only natural for the locals to be alarmed. But this gang and its leader, Cestus Calloway, are not common criminals. In fact, Cestus is known as the Robin Hood of the Rockies, distributing his loot to those less fortunate, raining stolen money down on the townsfolk. As if that weren’t too good to be true, this gang holds to one important rule: steal but don’t kill...

All Alpine’s Marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn’t have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They’re mad enough to break their own no kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started