Thomas Wakefield Blackburn

"He was part yanqui, part Mexican, part black, part Comanche. He was all man - and every inch a killer. He called himself Espada, the "Ace of Spades" in Spanish, and that was the calling card he left on the bullet-ridden corpses of his victims. Espada aimed to move in on the Stantons - and he was ready to gun down anybody who stood in his way, or else simply break him in his huge bare hands. This was the man against whom Jaime Henry, the Stanton ranch's...

When the character of Cole Lavery first appeared in the 1940s, readers immediately fell in love with the jack-of-all-trades who had a slow smile and a fast gun. And now, for the first time in paperback, all the Cole Lavery stories have finally been collected in one volume. The action flows seamlessly from one adventure to the next as Cole battles river pirates, a notorious bandit, and an unscrupulous robber baron; as he journeys to California on a...

"Tall Randolph Scott is every inch a hero in three bullet-laced westerns. The secessionist fervor of the 1850s comes to California, and undercover Army officer Scott aims to thwart the separatist passions in The man behind the gun. There's Thunder over the plains and lightning in Scott's holsters in the second film. He portrays an Army captain assigned to a lawless area of Texas after the Civil War. Next, Scott is Riding shotgun and heading into a...