The backstabbers / William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone.

By: Johnstone, William W [author.]Contributor(s): Johnstone, J. A [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Johnstone, William W. Red Ryan western ; 2.Thorndike Press large print westernPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: Large print editionDescription: 433 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781432880125 (hardback)Subject(s): Stagecoaches -- Fiction | Gold mines and mining -- Fiction | Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Western fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: FIRST RULE OF JOHNSTONE COUNTRY: TRUST NO ONE. No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. Especially when the passenger's a dead man, the payoff's a gold mine, and the last stop is death . . . SECOND RULE: WATCH YOUR BACK. Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunder storm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't refuse a pretty lady--or the lure of gold. But Red has a feeling they're playing with fire. Especially when the map leads them straight into crossfire of a ferocious range war, a 400-pound load of pure evil known as Papa Mace Rathmore--and his backwoods clan of sadistic, kill-crazy hillbillies . . . Live Free. Read Hard.
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FIRST RULE OF JOHNSTONE COUNTRY: TRUST NO ONE. No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. Especially when the passenger's a dead man, the payoff's a gold mine, and the last stop is death . . . SECOND RULE: WATCH YOUR BACK. Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunder storm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't refuse a pretty lady--or the lure of gold. But Red has a feeling they're playing with fire. Especially when the map leads them straight into crossfire of a ferocious range war, a 400-pound load of pure evil known as Papa Mace Rathmore--and his backwoods clan of sadistic, kill-crazy hillbillies . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

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