Ralph Compton Guns of the Greenhorn

Reeks: The Gunfighter Series

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  • Highly
  • educated—and
  • totally
  • clueless—young
  • Fletcher
  • Ralston
  • inherits
  • a
  • brothel
  • and
  • his
  • thieving
  • father's
  • deadly
  • enemy
  • in
  • this
  • suspenseful
  • new
  • novel
  • in
  • Ralph
  • Compton's
  • Gunfighter
  • series.Young
  • dandy
  • Fletcher
  • Ralston's
  • privileged
  • life
  • of
  • education
  • and
  • ease
  • in
  • the
  • East
  • comes
  • to
  • an
  • abrupt
  • end
  • when
  • he's
  • summoned
  • to
  • the
  • dried-up
  • Wyoming
  • town
  • of
  • Promise
  • to
  • inherit
  • a
  • run-down
  • bordello
  • and
  • a
  • lifetime
  • of
  • debts.The
  • old
  • woman
  • he's
  • known
  • only
  • via
  • correspondence
  • as
  • his
  • "aunt"
  • is
  • in
  • truth
  • the
  • madam
  • of
  • the
  • brothel.
  • After
  • their
  • meeting,
  • she
  • is
  • found
  • with
  • her
  • throat
  • slit,
  • and
  • Fletcher
  • is
  • suspect
  • number
  • one.
  • But
  • the
  • old
  • lady's
  • paramour,
  • crusty
  • Gunnar
  • Tibbs,
  • believes
  • in
  • his
  • innocence
  • and
  • sets
  • about
  • mentoring
  • the
  • tenderfoot.Fletcher
  • is
  • a
  • quick
  • study
  • with
  • the
  • revolver,
  • and
  • the
  • unlikely
  • pair
  • set
  • out
  • to
  • clear
  • Fletcher's
  • name
  • and
  • track
  • down
  • the
  • real
  • killer.
  • What
  • they
  • don't
  • know
  • is
  • that
  • someone
  • is
  • stalking
  • them
  • in
  • return:
  • Skin
  • Varney,
  • the
  • notorious,
  • unsavory
  • brute
  • his
  • father
  • double-crossed
  • years
  • before.Fletcher
  • Ralston
  • has
  • to
  • learn
  • the
  • ways
  • of
  • the
  • West,
  • and
  • fast.
  • Or
  • he'll
  • die
  • with
  • his
  • spats on.
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