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Shotgun Charlie
(2015)(The fourth book in the Ralph Compton Novels series)
A novel by Ralph Compton and Matthew P Mayo
ODD MAN OUT
The Prequel to THE HUNTED!
Big for his age, young and impressionable
drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time
crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward
Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the
gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to
thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught
alive, Big Charlie will soon swing for the crimes.
He makes a daring escape, determined to track
down Haskell and the gang and prove his innocence. Hot on Charlie's heels, a
mysterious marshal and a posse of angry townsmen track him into the High
Sierras, far to the north. Weaponless and with a vicious winter storm closing
in, Big Charlie must find the killers and thieves before the seething posse
turns vigilante and hangs him high.
Genre: Western
The Prequel to THE HUNTED!
Big for his age, young and impressionable
drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time
crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward
Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the
gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to
thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught
alive, Big Charlie will soon swing for the crimes.
He makes a daring escape, determined to track
down Haskell and the gang and prove his innocence. Hot on Charlie's heels, a
mysterious marshal and a posse of angry townsmen track him into the High
Sierras, far to the north. Weaponless and with a vicious winter storm closing
in, Big Charlie must find the killers and thieves before the seething posse
turns vigilante and hangs him high.
Genre: Western
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