A Bounty hunter is outgunned and under fire in this Ralph Compton western...
He now resides with his wife and daughter in Palm Beach, Florida, where he enjoys horse riding, cowboy action shooting, and studying Western history..
His lifelong ambition was to become a cowboy, but he was sidetracked by a career in law enforcement and journalism.
As a little boy growing up in a small fishing village in Scotland, Joseph West enjoyed many happy Saturday mornings at the local cinema in the company of Roy and Gene and Hoppy.
He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series.
His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel.
He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist.
More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print About the Author: Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots.
And against those odds Tone knows he may be loading the six chambers of his Colt for the last time...
He has to draw out six of his client\'s worst enemies--making himself a target for the men he would kill.
But when a powerful criminal from San Francisco\'s notorious Barbary Coast makes him an offer he can\'t refuse, Tone himself becomes the hunted one.
That was the hand Fate dealt him, and he would play it out.
In another time, far across the ocean, he had lost the only person he had ever loved--and he\'d been dead inside ever since.
If there was killing to be done, Tone showed no mercy.
Some would say ruthless.
John Tone was good at his job.
A Bounty hunter is outgunned and under fire in this Ralph Compton western..
