William W. Johnstone

Johnstone Country. Home at Last. When the Jensen family sends a new generation out into the world, they always keep the homefires burning—and rifles loaded—just in case they bring trouble back with them . . .  SHOT THROUGH THE HEART   Smoke Jensen’s daughter Denny can outride, outrope, and outshoot any man who gets in her way. But being a pretty woman, Denny sometimes attracts the attention of unsavory suitors. Like the lecherous Count Malatesta....

Cotton Pickens made it through fifth grade. That and a tin star were good enough to make him the sheriff in the boomtown of Doubtful, Wyoming. And Doubtful's name is no accident. The saying around town is, If you're a lawman, it's doubtful you'll last a day. Savage Guns Spoiled, brash King Bragg is going to hang for the murder of three men in a barroom. But King's arrogant father–and his beautiful sister–use their powers of persuasion to convince Cotton to look into the...

Cotton Pickens, the unforgettable hero of William Johnstone's classic Blood Valley, returns in a tale of a lawless Montana mining district, a 16-year-old widow, and a man who always finds new ways of laying down the law. . . Six Ways To Sunday–And Seven Days To Die Cotton Pickens' parents had a cussed sense of humor, but there's nothing funny about the way the man can draw a gun. Now he's in the middle of a mining camp district slowly being crushed under the iron fist of...

Life Is Cheap In Arizona Territory In Phoenix a sheriff guns down a banker and robs him of a document. Going to the banker's aid, a witness hears the dying man's last words and takes hold of the map the sheriff was really after. By the time the crooked lawman realizes he has the wrong document, Jolene Wellington is on the run–and framed for the murder of the banker. Back east, Falcon MacCallister's famous brother and sister plead with him to find a young woman who has vanished...

Matt Jensen is the adopted son of mountain man Smoke Jensen: his soul was forged by violence and hardship, his calling the sound of a gun. . . Snake River Massacre Matt Jensen didn't want to kill two murderers in Wyoming but he had no choice. Now, his fame has reached into Idaho Territory where a woman Matt knew as a child in an orphanage is being hunted by predators. . . Kitty Wellington inherited her uncle's 20,000-acre ranch–and a mortgage–on the Snake River. She plans to pay her...

In his epic saga of bloodshed and bullets, USA Today bestseller William Johnstone follows the violent trail of gunfighting legend Frank Morgan. Now this lone hero is about to come face to face with another kind of legend–one that stalks the woods of northern California. . . Half Man, Half Beast, All Terror It kills like an animal. Growling Clawing. Ripping. The loggers call it «The Terror of the Redwoods.» A local timber baron has put a bounty on the hide of this man-beast, and the woods are...

Who Is Killing The Army's Killer Elite? The attacks strike like lightning, a murder blitz targeting America's most ultra-secret organization, the Army's clandestine assassination arm known as the Dog Team. Without warning, Dog Team operatives are being systematically slaughtered, decimating the republic's last, best hope against those who would destroy our freedom.Surviving the initial onslaught are two of the Team's master assassins, Major Joe Kilroy and Captain Steve...

William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness–where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul. . .Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher. Now, Smoke Jensen, with his, a new black...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURYDEAL WITH THE DEVIL Smoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on a lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for what happens while he’s away from his home. An outlaw band strikes as two women are visiting at Smoke’s ranch. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead. AND PAY THE PRICE IN BLOOD… Outlaw Reece Van Arndt is the mastermind behind the attack, and he thinks he has Smoke where he...

William Johnstone's bestselling The Last Gunfighter novels have become a new classic in frontier adventure. Now, Frank Morgan, the last of a dying breed, sets off from the Pacific Northwest for Alaska–and into a raging blizzard of violence and death. A Hail Of Lead. . .. It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, a storm-racked sea voyage, and an anything-but-friendly reception...