Ambush Creek

Ambush Creek

Phil Dunlap

Large print - 2013

When U.S. Marshal Piedmont Kelly is asked by Cochise Sheriff John Henry Stevens to look into the suspicious activity of three unsavory bounty hunters, he rides into what looks like a battle's aftermath. Bullet holes riddle a ranch house, but there's no sign of those engaged in the gunplay. Nor is there any sign that the mysterious resident of the ranch house fits the description of the bounty hunters' quarry. There's nothing he can do but to go looking for the missing man. Enlisting the tracking skills of his old friend Spotted Dog, the Chiricahua Apache whose life he once saved, the pair follow four horses from the rancher's house all the way to Desert Belle, a dusty town that holds grim memories for Kelly. They ri...de straight into a deadly game where $50,000, several lives, and the survival of the Gilded Lily mine are at stake.

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Subjects
Missing persons > Fiction.
Bounty hunters > Fiction.
Large type books.
Western fiction.
Genres
Western fiction
Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print 2013.
Language
English
Main Author
Phil Dunlap (-)
Physical Description
287 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781611737080
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

*Starred Review* The author's fourth western novel featuring U.S. marshal Piedmont Kelly finds, in the Arizona Territory of 1880, the sheriff of Cochise County concerned about three scruffy men who have just ridden into town. Their potential for disaster sends a chill up his spine, because they are rough, dirty, unshaven, and carrying enough lethal hardware for a small army. It turns out that the three are bounty hunters, as unpopular a sort of folks as can be found in the Old West. In fact, one of them, Snake, bears the reputation of a low-down, back-shootin' polecat. It seems the bounty hunters are on the trail of one Alex Bowdre, and the trail has brought them to these parts. (Bowdre is wanted for murder in New Mexico.) The sheriff's concern is so great, the presence of these dudes so worrisome, that he calls in Marshal Piedmont Kelly, who, along with his old pal Spotted Dog, an Apache, pursues the bounty hunters; they have kidnapped a local rancher who may or may not be the person they are attempting to turn in to get a reward. With a raft of well-drawn, even indelible, characters, the novel also offers a compellingly involved, quite plausible, and tightly woven plot.--Hooper, Brad Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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