Book One
While
Angels Dance, nominated for a Pulitzer in 1994
Available in
hardcover, paperback and e-book editions.---
Jeston Nash
bears a striking resemblance to his cousin Jesse
Woodson James of Clay County Missouri. After killing
a Yankee soldier in self-defense, Jeston meets his
cousins, Jesse and Frank, and joins them to fight in
Quantrill's guerilla forces.
---
Later, after the war, he rides with the
James-Younger gang as they invent their special
brand of bank and train robbery. All the while,
Jeston seeks vengeance against Daniel Zanone of the
Free Kansas Militia - the man responsible for the
death of his child.
|
Book Two
---
He rode into
Crofton with a big black man and a quiet killer
named Jack. A few hours later he'd gunned down a man
for stealing a horse he stolen himself - and made
deadly enemies of a vicious bounty hunter and an
outlaw gang. For Jeston Nash, lookalike cousin of
Jesse James, it was a bad way to start a trip to
Powder River.
---
In 1868, as U.S.
Cavalry begins another romp towards manifest destiny
in the heart of Indian land, the Sioux Nation is
ripped apart by one tribe's angry death throes and
another tribe's greed.
---
Not above greed
themselves, and plenty used to killing, Nash, Quiet
Jack Smith and the mysterious black man named Big
Shod road on into the storm. From a plan to deal in
stolen horses, they found themselves fighting
madmen, warriors and thieves - not just for their
lives, not just for gold, but for the difference
between right and wrong.
|
Book Three
---
Ralph Cotton spins another
epic tale of guns and grit in the wake of the
Civil War, a journey through a world of outlaw
justice and the men who lived and died for it.
Sure,
it would've been easy
killing Two Diamond Joe with a second shot. No man
takes a .44 round square between the eyes and
survives. But Jeston Nash only wants his
prize horse back from the man, and a fast trail
out of the New Mexico badlands.
Together
again with Quiet Jack, Nash is on a hunt that will
take him through unforgiving terrain, a tangle of
firebrand beauties, and even into a lawman's
trust---before squaring off with most ruthless
pack of gunmen ever to rule the desert frontier.
|
Book Four
--
In a hail of thunder and gunfire,
Jeston Nash fled a new Orleans billiards hall with a
land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the
other. He'd won his gamble with Quick Quintan
Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence
flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garret's
still rang in Nash's ears...somewhere, someday, they
would meet again...
Jeston Nash
learned about robbery from his cousin, Jesse
James. But it was the wild outlaw Billy the Kid
who taught him that even a wanted man is just a
man. Nash catches up with the kid in a dusty town
of drunken bottle-shooters. Along with a scraggly
band of gamblers and gunslingers, they ride for
New Mexico, where for Billy the Kid, freedom lies
just beyond the border.
For Nash, the
enchanted land holds the chance to exchange his
hard-won land deed for the hauntingly beautiful
and seductive Contessa Cortez. But their dreams
turn to dust in the face of revolutionists, scalp
hunters, and the deadliest threat to of all - the
determined Sheriff Pat Garret, who plans to take
Nash down with the Kid, all in the name of
justice.
|
Book Five
--
In a chaotic
blast of gunfire, the James Gang fled a posse's
attack - and the infamous Jesse threw his cousin
Jeston Nash a hoard of stolen cash. But dodging the
law with thirty thousand dollars in a dusty
carpetbag is a risky proposition. Hoping to lie low
in the mountains of the Northwest, Jeston and his
partner, Quiet Jack, find themselves on a journey
into the dark heart of human nature - and deadly
animal instinct....
Jeston Nash is used to dodging bullets,
but when a hired thug's rotten remark gets under his
skin, he can't let it go - and he makes himself an
instant enemy aboard a snowbound train owned by the
sleaze's boss, Ben Larr. A rich son-of-a-gun
hell-bent on getting the grizzly who robbed him of a
leg, Larr is a fouler piece of work than the usual
brand of lowlifes Nash comes up against.
When Larr blackmails Nash
into leading his hunt, Nash discovers the killers of
man in Larr's twisted domain - a netherworld filled
with violence and drugs, obsession and revenge.
Before long, he finds himself face-to-face with
Laura, Larr's gorgeous but murderously manipulative
wife, and one savage grizzly, a man-killer straight
from the jaws of hell.
|
Book Six
Jeston Nash knew horses-he'd stolen
enough of them in his time. But the lookalike cousin
of Jesse James was going respectable, almost.
Then, in New Orleans awash in drunks and blue
uniforms, he sold a horse to a well-bred lady,
It was the biggest mistake of his career....
He hit Fort with a belly full of
wounds and without one boot. His horse had been
stolen, and he'd stolen it back-along with some
bootleg crackers. All and all, it hadn't been
a pleasant trip through the dreaded Black
Hills. But at least Jeston Nash-for the time
being calling himself Beatty-hadn't drowned.
Now he fully intended to fulfill a promise: to
deliver an unridable horse called Honest Bob to a
woman named Custer.
The trouble was, the wife of
General George Armstrong Custer, Elizabeth, wasn't
very interested in the horse she'd persuaded Nash to
deliver. In fact, Mrs. Custer was on the war
path. So were the Sioux-and General Custer's
commanders in Washington. Suddenly, Nash finds
himself in the middle of the most dangerous kind of
fight: a marital squabble. Before he knows it
he's riding alongside a hardheaded, buffalo hunting,
blonde haired general who's sure glory awaits
them-at a place called Little Big Horn.
|
