William S. Brady

When Jared Hawk helped the black gunman, Aaron Turner, bring in a wanted man it was one more job - a few extra dollars in his pocket. He didn't know he was riding into the hellfire center of a range war. Nor that he'd find himself on the other side, facing Turner over the blazing muzzle of a Colt. 45. But Hawk had a simple coded: kill first and ask questions later. If there was anyone alive to answer ...

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692

Published: 2022

Blood Kin

The settlers at Rising Star just about had enough of James Hunter and his bullying ways. They turned to Jared Hawk to clean up their town. It took Laura Friedman to persuade Hawk to pin on their marshal's badge. When he did, he promised to deal with Hunter ... one way or another.He didn't go back on his word when he faced Hunter's hired guns.Or when he learned the truth about the woman who hired him.Or when he found out just who they wanted him to kill ...

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632

Published: 1980

Hawk 08

William S. Brady

Jared Hawk wasn't looking for a fight. Not until the marshal at Eagle Pass decided his woman was looking too long at the gunfighter, and threw Hawk in jail.It was pure chance that the Kincaid gang chose then to raid the town. And the marshal made up his mind Hawk was one of them ... and decided to hang him.Hawk got offered a simple choice: wait around for the rope or go after the outlaws.Kincaid's men were mean. Natural killers. But so was Hawk.He rode out to clear his name the only way he knew how... with a gun...

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609

Published: 2004

Hawk 04

William S. Brady

The hangman's rope!Jared Hawk stank of death. It hung about him like gunsmoke and the sour smell of drying blood. He thought he'd take life easy for a while: enjoy whisky and women and nothing more. Leave his Colt .45 in its greased holster.But things turned bad and he took a job riding herd on a prisoner due to be hanged. It should have been simple...Before Hawk could earn his four hundred dollars and the hangman could settle his rope around the killer's neck, Hawk's gun was back in action and the stench of death hung in the air.

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566

Published: 2023

Shoot-Out!

William S. Brady

The gun was the Colt Single Action Army model of 1873. It was the first handgun to utilize brass-jacketed cartridges. It was the gun that became known as The Peacemaker. John T. McLain wanted the gun ... This peacemaker was the gun that would tame the West. And McLain knew he had to be the first to own it ... The alternative was death. Final book in the series,

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523

Published: 1984

Comanche! (A Peacemaker Western--Book One)

William S. Brady

War taught him to kill ...to stay alive!John T. McLain had nothing left in Missouri. His wife was dead, his farm was burned out.The Civil War taught him the bloody art of killing, and now he was alone. He owned a brace of Colt Dragoons pistols, a Sharps carbine, and a horse. He followed the rebel guerrilla trail south to Texas ...And there, the Nokoni Comanche took his horse and plunged him into violent struggle for survival that was even more savage than the White man's war.A brutal fight for life that sent McLain down the killing trail again.But this time in pursuit of a dream.

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506

Published: 1981

Whiplash! (A Peacemaker Western #3)

William S. Brady

McLain came to Texas to find peace - and stayed to enforce it with his Colt's Dragoon pistols and his Sharp's carbine.Zac Moffat came with a stockwhip and a gang of renegades, to take what he could by terror when it worked - by cold-blooded murder if his victims fought back...McLain saw his dreams dissolving in a bloody range war. The only way to stop it was more killing - and the only killer was man enough to do it was McLain.

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464

Published: 2022

Hawk 03

William S. Brady

Jared Hawk rode into Santa Maria on the trail of a Mexican outlaw with a $1,000 bounty on his head.He didn't know he was riding into a revenge war between the Mexicans and the Apache Nation—until the people of Santa Maria offered him one thousand dollars American to get them out to safety. Down a trail that was lined with blood-hungry Indians and a young Mexican who wanted to kill him.Hawk took the money and gave his word. And he wasn't the kind of man who went back on a promise. Even when it meant losing a woman to the harsh code that demanded blood for blood ... and a life for a life.

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448

Published: 2023

Hawk 05

William S. Brady

Jared Hawk wasn't looking for a fight. But he wasn't walking away when the Mexican called him out ... he killed the pistolero.He didn't know the man's brother headed an outlaw gang working the Border country. But he had been warned: 'My name is Luis Brava. Remember that. I want you to know my name when I kill you.'And Luis Brava took his revenge.He left Hawk to die.It was a mistake, because Hawk wasn't the kind of man to die easy. He went looking for his own personal vengeance. And when he got hired to track the Brava gang he had two reasons for doing the job the only way he knew how ... violently!

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319

Published: 2014

Bloodrun! (A Peacemaker Western #5)

William S. Brady

The stagecoach was a lifeline. It linked Garrison with the other Texas border towns. It brought new blood and new money. And raiders! Their trade was death, paid in blood and bullets. John T. McLain was Garrison's duly elected marshal. It was his duty to see the stage got through ... no matter who stood in the way.

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316

Published: 2023

Death's Bounty (A Hawk Western #3)

William S. Brady

Jared Hawk rode into Santa Maria on the trail of a Mexican outlaw with a $1,000 bounty on his head.He didn't know he was riding into a revenge war between the Mexicans and the Apache Nation—until the people of Santa Maria offered him one thousand dollars American to get them out to safety. Down a trail that was lined with blood-hungry Indians and a young Mexican who wanted to kill him.Hawk took the money and gave his word. And he wasn't the kind of man who went back on a promise. Even when it meant losing a woman to the harsh code that demanded blood for blood ... and a life for a life.

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272

Published: 2023

The Sudden Guns (A Hawk Western #1)

William S. Brady

Jared Hawk was a gunfighter. His talent for killing was up for hire – if the price was right. His code was simple: stay alive to deliver the goods and collect the dues, and don't step aside for any man.Philip Garrett hired Hawk to take him and his niece, Sarah Lee, through to Los Angeles, but a pack of professional guns blocked the road. Before Hawk reached the City of the Angels all his gun skills were brought to bloody use, and the old California trail was marked with gravestones...

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248

Published: 2022

Outlaws! (A Peacemaker Western #2)

William S. Brady

McLain went to Texas looking for a new life. The outlaws drifting down saw only the pickings. And only one way to take them - with a gun. It didn't matter who stood in their way: they'd learnt their deadly trade in the bloody fighting of the Civil War. But so had McLain, and now he was on the other side. Ready to follow the killers into Mexico or hell, whichever came first. Ready to use the Colt's Dragoons he'd carried through the War, or the Sharps buffalo gun that could kill up to a mile...Mostly, just ready to kill again.

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227

Published: 2022

War-Party! (A Peacemaker Western #6)

William S. Brady

War smoke shaded the sky over Garrison the color of death. The Comanche were massing for a vengeance war. And a crazy white man was preaching a crusade of slaughter against the tribes that would bring holocaust to the Texas border. One man stood between hell and destruction. A man called McLain. A man ready to kill to keep the peace.

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202

Published: 2023

One-Thousand Dollar Death (A Peacemaker Western #7)

William S. Brady

The warriors of the Comanche nation ringed Garrison. Inside the town John T. McLain was sitting on $1,000 in stolen money and a vengeance-bent outlaw called Hondo John Montrose. Hondo John left the lawman with a bullet in him and ran with the money. But McLain wasn't the kind of man to let a bullet stop him. Or hostile Comanche. He went after the killer ... and nothing was going to stand in his way.

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122

Published: 1985

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