Free (Kindle) Lawless Range by Hank Madison [Gunslinger vs Misc Lawbreakers Western]

[ATDrake]

Lawless Range by Hank Madison, a pseudonym for prolific multi-genre British author Donald S. Rowland (ISFDB, SFE, Fantastic Fiction) is his standalone western historical action novel, this one a tale of near-death by mistaken identity as a visiting gunslinger for hire helping out his town sherriff friend is thought to be the murderous hireling of a greedy landowner who seeks to gobble up smaller ranches by any means necessary, and finds himself championing the vengeful young woman taking aim in retaliation for her family ranch thus gobbled up, and there's also some incidental cattle rustling which may or may not be related, just to stuff even more excitement into the 113 pages of plot, as you do, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Pioneering imprint.

This was originally published in 1980 by Robert Hale.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else worldwide that Amazon sells, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
There’s trouble on the range…

Chet Crane is on his way to the town of Ash Tree in Wells County, where his old pal, Al Shadde has settled down as town marshal.

The two were once sidekicks but while Chet has continued on his lonesome path as a gun-for-hire, Al became a married and well-respected community man.

But close to Ash Tree, Chet can feel a gun on him. After many years as a gunslinger, Crane has a fair few enemies. Could it be an ambush?

When Chet finally picks out the ‘bush-wacker’ lying in waiting, the man in question is dead.

In fact, he’s been dead for a while and going by his young face, he was barely a man.

Before he can even ride off to let Al know, he’s shot at from behind. To add to his list of surprises, his attacker this time is a young woman.

He learns that her name is Jane Arrell and the murdered boy was her brother, Thad. Both of them are the children of the A Bar Ranch owner.

It seems that Jane not only mistook Chet to be her brother’s murderer but also a member of the Bar B Ranch – a gunnie hired by Buck Bannerman.

According to Jane, Bannerman has been gobbling up smaller ranches in the range and now he’s set his sights on the bigger ones.

There’s been a spate of cattle rustling, and even some gunplay to try and scare them off.

But as the A Bar has no proof of Bannerman’s hustling and with the range outside of Al’s jurisdiction, there’s nothing to be done.

Chet maybe a gun-for-hire but he’s got principles, and the whole business sounds beyond crooked to him.

The bullet wound through his shoulder needs tending to and the fever to pass, but after that, he’s lending his gun to the Arrells.

If he uses all his skills then not only will he track down those good for nothing rustlers, he may even find the proof that the Arells need.

Maybe then Sheriff Bradley can finally bring the law to this Lawless Range…

A gripping and suspenseful Western, Lawless Range is a must-read for fans of Zane Grey.

[ZodWallop]

Thanks for that.

Westerns sure do need some better cover art. Is there anything worse than silhouettes as a cover image?

[ATDrake]

Now a repeat freebie if you happened to miss it earlier.

[Dr. Drib]

In my experience, a 1948 Tappan gas range is the best one for taking care of greedy, gobbling landowners!

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