J T Edson: 97 books

His only name was Waco ...A Texan who rode as an Arizona Ranger, being peace officer, detective and ready to handle any emergency.His duties led him to lock horns with a campaigning lady politician, to tangle with Curly Bill Brocious and his girlfriend, Tioga, and to stand by Captain Bertram H. Mosehan...

When Churn Wycliff’s gang killed Sailor Sam Carol, Mark Counter of Ole Devil Hardin’s legendary Floating Outfit swore to bring them to justice. Taking their trail, the blond giant matched his enormous strength and lightning-fast draw against the brutal, evil pack. In the end Mark found Wycliffe...

Out in Wyoming it took a brave man –or a fool – to tangle with a cougar. In a land where men faced death readily, where lead flew with deadly accuracy, the speed and power of the cougar, or mountain lion, were to be respected and feared. If a cougar or an old grizzly was prowling around, there...

The Texans' defeat at the Alamo had embittered their bloody rebellion with the gall of revenge. But Major General Sam Houston was determined to meet Santa Anna's superior forces on his own terms. While the Mexican Army--fifteen hundred strong--camped on the banks of the San Jacinto, it fell...

All through the war, Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, had hoped to meet Tollinger and Barmain, the leaders of the mob which had murdered her parents and burned her home to the ground. At last, with the war over, she found them. Accompanied by the Ysabel Kid and his father, Belle set out to take her revenge. To...

Gusher City, Texas...Two terrorists had seized hostages, demanding an aircraft to take them to Cuba...Then ‘Crazy Doc’ Christopher had escaped from the penitentiary, hell-bent on vengeance...But when Walter Haddon—one of the FBI’s ten most wanted men—strolled into Gusher City, all four men...

Hearing that a young Yankee officer was being court-martialled for cowardice, Captain Dusty Fog felt that it was a matter of honor that he should challenge the charges. And, with their Southern sense of chivalry, the rest of the Texas Light Cavalry agreed. So Ole Devil Hardin arranged for Dusty to...

Tom Cord was within three months of retirement when bushwhack lead cut him down. No lawman ever allowed one of his fellow officers to be murdered without making every effort to get his killer. Deputy Sheriff Bradford Counter, a modern-day gun wizard, had been Tom’s partner; Woman Deputy Alice Fayde...

Bradford Counter stood six feet three and weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. He was a graduate of the University of Southern Texas’s Police Science and Administration Class and had passed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s training course for police officers with honors. His black belts...

Few men were able to match Mark Counter’s Herculean strength. And then Tiny Crumble came along... Yet, despite his great size and awesomely powerful muscles, Tiny appeared to be of a trusting and gentle nature—so gentle in fact that the boys of the Floating Outfit had misgivings about allowing...

The Confederacy needs arms. And greedy European merchants are demanding gold for their goods. Though gold may be scarce in Dixie, there's no shortage of courage. Belle Boyd, beautiful rebel spy, joins Dusty Fog in a daring plot to finance a shipment of rifles with stolen Yankee dollars. Together,...

At first most people, even the majority of his victims, regarded the Owlhoot as something of a joke. Armed with a long-barreled Colt Peacemaker, masked by a bandana and dressed like an old West cowhand, he robbed couples necking in cars on lonely roads. Woman Deputy Alice Fayde and her partner, modern-day...

Deputy sheriffs Alice Fayde and Brad Counter looked at the body. It was that of a shapely, luciously-curved young woman. There were six bullet holes in the torso. And there was no face—only a hideously battered mass of blood and pulp. Sometimes the work of a modern peace officer can be even tougher than in the days of the Old West.

Mark Counter had an eye for a beautiful woman—and he was always willing to go to the assistance of a lady in distress. But whilst handling a chore for his boss, Ole Devil Hardin, he met two ladies who came close to making him change his ways. The first’s name was Martha Jane Canary. Her problem...