With works that embody the soaring spirit and gritty allure of the famed Ralph Compton novels, Joseph A. West captures the full flavor of the West with his hard-hitting tales. John Tone is a ruthless
bounty hunter willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Once he's set his sights on someone, that fugitive's as good as caught. But when he encounters a cunning criminal from the Barbary
Coast, the tables are turned.
Ralph Compton (1934–1998) stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America
Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a
musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. A number of his later works also appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. Since his
death, a number of works have been published under Compton’s byline, including The Alamosa Trail, Riders of Judgement, The Abilene Trail, The Bozeman Trail, and others.
Joseph A. West was born and raised in Scotland. At nineteen years old, he became a police officer, but soon turned his love of writing into a career as a journalist, working for the Daily
Mirror in London and the National Enquirer in the US, among others. Traveling the world in search of stories, West almost froze to death on an Alaska mountain, and a spider bite nearly
killed him in the Amazon rainforest. Now a full-time novelist, West and his wife Emily reside in sunny Palm Beach, Florida.
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