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On Sale for a Limited Time!! Regularly $7.99. DEATH IN BLACK HOLSTERS They said Lorn Chambers packed death in his black holsters. But Chambers was a relic from the past, the last of the great gunfighters. All the others were dead or had hung up their guns, trying to change with the times. Chambers turned his back on the future and rode off into the western wasteland, looking for what was left of the past. What he found was some vicious killers from his own past. They had robbed and murdered his parents years before and planned to kill Chambers before he could kill them. Warning: Reading a ...

Pre-release pricing for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. THE GUNDOWN TRAIL The trail Ben Hite rode should have been called THE GUNDOWN TRAIL, because that's what it turned out to be. Two gundowners named Jeff Mitton and Steve Kibben had followed pretty much the same trail not long before. But where they turned back, Ben Hite rode on into wilder, more dangerous country, with a gang of murderous outlaws on his trail and more everywhere he went. Not to mention a band of renegade Apaches who thought Hite had killed the bloodthirsty chief's young son and kidnapped the beautiful Mexican spitfire ...

Pre-release pricing. Limited time only! Regularly $7.99. BRANDON’S LAW Brandon’s law was simple. Leave him alone. But Ram Salter’s men couldn’t leave him alone. They had orders from their boss to run him out of the country or kill him. That should have been easy. There were enough of them to get the job done. But which one of them would he kill first when they went for their guns? And how many of them would he kill before they got him? There was only one way to find out. WARNING: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old ...

On Sale for a Limited Time! Regularly $7.99. THE BOUNTY HUNTERS His name was Dan Britton, but he used other names—Ben Travis and Rex Farley among them—because both lawmen and outlaws hunted him for the bounty Sam Grayson had put on his head to get even with Britton for killing his brother. Grayson was himself an outlaw and the leader of other outlaws who had joined the hunt for Britton. All of them had prices on their heads. Britton finally decided to collect some bounties himself. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s Law ...

On Sale Now! Regularly $6.99! Save 63%! Wild Desert Rose In the fall of 1874, a beautiful half-breed Indian girl named Rose Wilder shoots the most powerful man of a small town accidentally in a quarrel. Then to escape the lust and rage of the sheriff and his deputy, both related to the dead man, she sets out alone on a perilous journey that takes her to wild Texas towns and on into even wilder desert country roamed by the wildest men of the wildest time in America. Stalked by lawmen and outlaws, she meets famous gunfighters and a strange Indian who wants her to go away with him into the ...

Pre-release pricing! Regularly $7.99! MABEN The man who called himself John Parker never actually admitted that his real name was Frank Maben. And old Al Maben, the only one who would have known for sure, had been shot from the brush by an unknown killer as he sat on his front porch in his rocking chair, perhaps thinking about his dead wife and a son he hadn’t seen since before the Civil War. The local ranchers and rustlers seemed convinced that the tall two-gun stranger was in fact old Al Maben’s long-lost son. When they weren’t too busy fighting among themselves, they spent their ...

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On Sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. SHILOH STARK In one of the bloodiest battles of the War Between the States, he became known as Shiloh Stark by outshooting everyone else in his outfit. After the war he roamed the world in search of a peace he did not find. Ten years after the war ended, a tall man wearing dark clothes and two tied-down guns appeared in No Man’s Land, where there was no law and no peace. But Shiloh Stark was no longer looking for peace. He came prepared for war. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s ...

On sale for a limited time! Normally $6.99! THE HELLBOUNDERS Known as the Hellbounders during the Civil War, now in the 1870s the Conder gang had broken up and fallen on hard times. The old man, Ike Conder, and sons Hob and Pete were all threatening to kill each other. Ike Conder got his first, one dark rainy night when he was trying to make ends meet the only way he knew how. Ike cocked his gun and pointed it at Cindy Hayton’s pretty blond head. “Girl, if you’ve got any money, you better tell me where it is.” Hob Conder’s bearded face appeared at the small window. He smashed a ...

On Sale-Limited time only! Regularly $7.99! BLOOD IN THE HILLS The Circle 8 bunch were really just outlaws and rustlers. Their leader, Mort Dudley had a devious plan to get rid of a couple of his newly hired hands before the bunch cashed in the large herd of cattle that had fallen into their hands when they murdered the old man who owned the herd. Their trouble began when they tried to frame a quiet stranger for the old man’s murder. They didn’t know his real name or that he was a deadly gunfighter and the son of the old man they had buried in an unmarked grave. The quiet stranger drops...

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On Sale for a Limited Time! Normally $7.99. The Gundowners While Jeff Mitton is away fighting in the War Between the States, his sister Lettie disappears. When he returns home, his mother makes him promise to find her. When Jeff is bushwhacked while looking for Lettie, he is befriended by a secretive gunfighter named Steve KIbben, who is hunting some men who killed his sister. Jeff doesn’t know they are searching for the same dangerous men. Men, and beautiful women, who will stop at nothing to stay out of the clutches of the Federal agents pursuing them for spying for the South. More ...

Pre-release pricing! Normally $7.99! SIX-GUN SHOWDOWN SOMEONE HAD KILLED SANDIE TURNER’S MOTHER. HANDSOME AND CHARMING CLAUDE BROWN HAD CONVINCED THE GIRL THAT THE KILLER WAS JIM DEXTER. Sandie was watching him with terror in her eyes. “You just came from Colorado, didn’t you? You cold have done it.” “Jesus Christ!” Dexter said, getting to his feet. He threw a dollar on the counter and headed for the door. A dollar was too much for the coffee but he did not wait for the change. He had a lying skunk to kill. “Claude is the only one who knows where my mother is!” Sandie yelled...

On Sale Now! Limited time only! Regular price: $7.99. Hunt the Killers Down The War Between the States had just ended. But the war between Jeff Braden and the killers who had murdered his folks was just beginning. What he didn’t know was that the worst killer of them all was a likable young man that no one suspected. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s Law Curly Bill and Ringo Dead Man Riding Dead Man's Trail Death in Black Holsters Dynamite Riders Hellbound Express Hunt the Killers Down Maben Rebel With a Gun Riding for ...

On Sale for a limited time! Normally $7.99! RUBECK'S RAIDERS The Civil war divided the country and tore families apart. After the war, two half brothers became legendary gunfighters and cowboys in the old West--and deadly enemies. Rubeck's Raiders, a confederate army unit, were so brutal, even their own army disowned them. When the leaders' son and paramour were killed one night, he knew it was one of his own men. A man hunt that spanned 10 years ensued. The murdered girls' younger sister saw a face in the window that horrible night, and swore to track her sister's killer down. She hires ...

Special pre-release pricing! Normally $7.99 BUCK HAYDEN, MUSTANGER Buck Hayden and Frank Martin were mustangers. All they wanted to do was hunt wild horses in wild country. So they headed for the wildest part of Nevada and moved into an abandoned shack on a lonely mesa where a magnificent wild stallion and his band of wild horses roamed. There was no one else on the mesa and the nearest ranchers caused them no trouble. But things changed when King Hoffer moved in and tried to take over the whole country. While Hayden was away Hoffer’s men either killed Martin or ran him out of the country...

Now on sale for a limited time! Normally priced at $7.99. THE MEN FROM MISSOURI Dan got to his feet. “Tell me one thing before I go. If you didn’t steal my money, how did Swope get hold of my new carpetbag? He was carryin’ it into your house when I rode out of town that day.” “Why don’t you ask him when he gets back?” “I intend to,” Dan said. “It’s about time me and him had it out.” He turned to find Hump Bagley at the door, making angry growling noises. Dan smiled and drew his gun. “You can have her. You and Swope can fight over her. Now get the hell out of my way...

On Sale for a Limited Time!! Normally $7.99. A FEW DEAD MEN Wearing a badge and a Colt .45, Ben Cobbett had tamed some of the wildest towns in the West. When he stopped in the isolated desert town of Rockville to give himself and his tired horse a little rest, he wasn’t looking for another wild town to tame. But an old rancher wanted him to clean out a gang of vicious outlaws and rustlers who had ruined the old man’s daughter and run off most of his stock. What were a few dead men to a gunslinging town tamer like Ben Cobbett? The bad ones weren’t afraid of Cobbett. They thought it ...

Special pre-release pricing! Normally priced at $7.99. SIX-GUN MAN That’s what Dan Hanton was, among other things. A drifter and a loner who preferred wild lonesome country and remote, almost deserted town like Ramada where there weren’t too many innocent bystanders getting in the line of fire if old enemies from the past showed up looking for him. Old enemies like the Moody and Fink boys, outlaws who had nothing to fear from a crooked sheriff who never came to Ramada. They had nothing to fear from anyone except each other – and Dan Hanton. Nora banged on Lafe Moody’s door and then ...

Pre-release pricing for a limited time. Regularly $7.99! THE RETURN OF THE SIX-GUNNER Floyd Hamby's bearded face was contorted with an old rage against anything that got in his way or caused him any trouble. And now he stood at the door of the restaurant accusing Cole Decker of stealing one of his horses. “Ain't no call to talk that way, Floyd,” Sheriff Felix Peabody said. “He thought the horse belonged to a dead man who tried to kill him.” “Why are you tryin' to protect him, Peabody?” Floyd Hamby asked suspiciously. The small old sheriff looked surprised. “I ain't tryin' to ...