This Violent Land [Dramatized Adaptation]

Smoke Jensen, Book The Beginning, Book 2

By: William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: full cast, James Lewis, Mort Shelby, Thomas Keegan, Richard Rohan, Elizabeth Jernigan, David Coyne, Lily Beacon, Bradley Smith, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Thomas Penny, Sherri Edelen

In this powerful new story, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone chronicle Smoke Jensen’s early years, long before he became a legend....

Kirby — later Smoke — Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy US marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of Las Animas. There, he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the outlaw leader Cole Dawson, whose six-gun has left a lot of good men dead. Young Smoke feels no such fear. He takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins.

It turns out Dawson is only a cog in a crooked plot hatched by someone hiding behind the law. For a young deputy marshal, going up against the powerful and corrupt is almost certainly a fool’s mission, but doing nothing is not a choice. When Smoke strikes, he’s in all the bloody way, and what follows will become the stuff of legend. Braving bullets, blood, and treachery to face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado Territory, Smoke will earn a reputation for justice and the rule of law in a wild, violent frontier.

Performed by James Lewis, Mort Shelby, Thomas Keegan, Richard Rohan, Elizabeth Jernigan, David Coyne, Lily Beacon, Bradley Smith, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Thomas Penny, Sherri Edelen, Michael Glenn, Dylan Lynch, Steven Carpenter, Robbie Gay, Chris Genebach, Terence Aselford, Andy Clemence, Dani Stoller, Tim Carlin, Ken Jackson, Michael John Casey, Eric Messner, Sasha Olinick, Danny Gavigan, Scott McCormick, Chris Davenport, Chris Stinson, David Jourdan, Christopher Walker, Alyssa Wilmoth, Jacob Yeh, Colleen Delany, Alejandro Ruiz, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Tim Getman, James Konicek, Christopher Scheeren, Steve Wannall, Nanette Savard, Deidra Starnes, Gary Telles, Nora Achrati, Jeff Allin.

©2016 J.A. Johnstone (P)2017 Graphic Audio, LLC

love these stories and the voice actors are fantastic

Love the Graphic Audio versions of these books, on to #3 and more after that as well . Already done with Frank and Kid Morgan!

This Violent Land

This is another good book about Smoke. In this book Smoke meets Sally while hunting for the three guys that killed his Father. And he thinks they killed Luke. He's also a Marshall. If you like Smoke you need to listen to this book. There are several narrators in this book. They do a good job. I'm liking these types of books more and more. If my review is any help will you please click on the helpful link below. Thank you.

A movie in my mind

loved the book and the actors playing the parts. it was just like watching on the big screen.

Great Audio Play

This is book #2 in the beginning of the Smoke Jensen stories and it does not disappoint. It is good but I think book #1 was a little better, but it still does a good job of describing Smoke and his family and friends beginnings. I would say that I am beginning to get hooked on these stories. Great listening by a full cast of narrators.

Smoke Jensen the early years

I liked this book. I not sure about the graphic dramanization part. I'll probably stick to the straight naratve n the future.