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Hell's Half Acre (Wheeler Publishing Large Print Western)
Hell's Half Acre - Wheeler Publishing Large Print Western Author:William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY — Bestselling Western novelists William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone have created a new hero of the Texas frontier: Jess Casey, cowboy, lawman, gunfighter. — "STAY THE HELL OUT OF FORT WORTH." — Those were the last words uttered by a dying man who was the boomtown's most recent sheriff. Rail-thin ... more »and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Jess not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff, inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hell's Half Acre, the wide-open, deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier.
Hell's Half Acre is home to Kurt Koenig and his gang-run empire of booze, prostitution, and wholesale slaughter. For Koenig, the only good lawman is a dead one, and he puts a pretty price on Jess Casey's head. For Jess Casey, that means war. Against him are the frontier's fastest draw and a host of murderous triggers. On his side are decades of rock-hard Texas living, a couple of ne'er-do-well deputies, and the good sense to do all his talking behind the barrel of a fast-blazing gun...