Louis Masterson: 30 books

“The only way to cut these Kiowa down to size is to hunt ‘em down to the last man!” On the Kiowa reservation at Bald Peak, someone was smuggling liquor to the Indians – but lips were tightly closed to all enquiries. A Kiowa raiding party had broken out of the reservation and made a murderous...

It started with the mobile brothel… In New Orleans, Texas Ranger Morgan Kane carried out orders to go after a crook named Tilder. Kane learned about trouble up at Fort Henderson - Tilder ran a bar and brothel on wheels fleecing soldiers. An officer was killed and a corporal blinded. Tilder had been...

Hijack to Dodge City! Morgan Kane’s first assignment as a U.S. Marshal was tough - tackling a series of brilliant and brutal train robberies in Kansas and Missouri. Dynamite charges and derailments were commonplace, and losses were up to one and a half million dollars… Kane got on the track of Miles...

To die alone is a gunman’s inheritance… Pierre Bayard, alias Johnny Largo, alias Whip Lash, was wanted for murder in five states. After he’d shot a marshal in Laramie and fled south, Kane was put on his trail. He didn’t know much about the killer, beyond the fact that he was a superstitious woman-chaser,...

Morgan Kane gunned down a bandit in New York, generating a lot of headlines.  Kane didn’t like New York.  He was wondering how much longer he could stand city life when a telegram arrived from his boss, suggesting he take some leave in Florida.  It seemed that Henry Ziegler, the rich and eccentric...

Feelings were running high in Fort Worth… Charlie Katz, a Ranger with the 4th Mounted, Texas, had run amok. He supposedly had beaten up and attempted to rape Stella Nash, the daughter of the local bank manager. Van Buren, the girl’s fiancé, had rushed in to rescue her – and Charlie went to his...

Morgan Kane’s friend, Peter Grossmann, had been gunned down by convicts on the run from the penitentiary at El Paso. Kane dealt with two of the gunmen but the ringleader, Johnny Vulture, was still at large. Kane was determined to hunt him down and avenge Grossmann’s death. Johnny Vulture, for his...

“One more drunken brawl or nonsense from you and you’re outta the 4th Texas head first!” Morgan Kane, Texas Ranger and hell raiser, knew that Major Monroe, boss of the ranger post at Alvarado, was a man of his word. Kane didn’t want to lose his job – so when he was challenged to eliminate the...

“Five thousand dollars for Roy Zarco – dead or alive!” In El Paso, Roy Zarco – a get-rich-quick speculator with an eye for the women – bed been sentenced to twenty years’ hard labor for theft and murder. At the time he swore vengeance. Now, eight years later, he’d escaped from the chain...

Morgan Kane was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. He’d been ordered to sail to Yucatán and bring back a team of geologists who’d become involved in a spot of bother. A piece of cake, thought Kane, who was enjoying the voyage. But when Bahama Jack Delaney, a buccaneering adventurer, came on board...

Kane fulgte Tilder som en skygge i tre dager. Han smeltet sammen med mengden og betraktet sitt offer med intens, kjølig interesse. Det varte ikke lenge før han forsto at Tilder var farlig. Det var bare en ting å gjøre, passe ham opp og ta ham – levende eller død. Og det hadde han gjort. Død....

Charlie Katz var død – Kanes eneste venn fra ungdomstiden … skutt ned i et forsøk på å voldta en kvinne. Hans navn var en skamplett på rangerkorpsets ære… Var dette sannheten? Var Kanes venn virkelig et slikt svin? Eller lå andre, hemmelige ting bak? Kane måtte ha visshet. Han ga avkall...

Det var Kanes første oppdrag som U.S. Marshal, og han fikk det av sin nye sjef, William Shane. - Det har vært tjuefire tog- og diligenceran på elleve måneder, og til sammen trettien mennesker har mistet livet. Vi venter ikke at du skal få slutt på dette alene, Kane! Men Morgan Kane var vant til å arbeide alene, til å gå dødens ærend. Han var drapsmann – U.S. Marshal…

Udyret fra Yuma kalte de ham. Han het Roy Zarco og sonet tjue år i Yuma fengsel for tyveri og drap. Åtte år etter dommen la angsten seg over El Paso. De menneskene som hadde fått ham i fengsel oppsøkte myndighetene og ba om beskyttelse. Udyret hadde rømt! U.S. Marshal Morgan Kane ble sendt mot ham. For Roy Zarco var på vei østover – mot El Paso – som en hevnens nemesis…