L J Coburn: 5 books

Thorn’s Raiders were the most feared seek-and-destroy unit on the Union side in America’s bloody Civil War. A gang of condemned criminals, they had been reprieved only to be sent on savage suicide missions against the Confederacy. They were led by Caleb Thorn, the young born killer with a personal...

1861 is about to change Caleb Thorn’s life forever. A bully-boy and philanderer, Thorn kills Lieutenant Janson in a duel of honor. He has scant interest in his country’s civil turmoil until it dramatically intrudes into his life. He witnesses the chaos at the Battle of Bull Run in which his mother...

THE MAN WHO TRIED TO CROSS CALEB . . . Through the smoke, as if in a dream, Caleb saw Cheatham feverishly cocking the heavy pistol again, gripping it by the barrel as he levered back the hammer. With an effortless and fluid action that he had practiced a thousand times since obtaining the unusual...

SEEK AND DESTROY That was the order given to Caleb Thorn and his troop of Union desperadoes on their missions against the South in America’s vicious Civil War. Not that Thorn’s Raiders needed any encouraging. Hardened and skilful killers to a man, they relished the chances for ambush, pillage,...

The third story in the savage series set in the American Civil War. It was a bitter winter in a war tearing a nation apart. Thorn's Raiders - a gang of criminals, reprieved only to be sent on raiding missions against the South. Led by Caleb Thorn, young in years but already a veteran killer with a...