Joseph A West: 22 books

This western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series goes from the mean streets of New York City to the lawless frontier... Ordered to head west when a notorious New York City gangster puts a price on his head, Detective Sergeant Joseph McBride ends up in the lawless boomtown of High...

The bones of the first Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered have been unearthed in Montana’s dusty cattle country, circa 1908. But Chinese American detective Chester Wong has another body to worry about—that of the paleontologist who discovered the fossil, shortly before his murder. Hired...

There's a thin line between the law and the lawless in this Ralph Compton western... Newspaper reporter Lester T. Booker traveled to Santa Fe to interview legendary gunfighter and dime novel hero Ransom March. But the quick-drawing “Prince of the Plains” Booker meets turns out to be little...

In this Ralph Compton western, the most wanted man in the West isn’t an outlaw. But he’s still worth $30,000 dead or alive… An inexperienced cowpuncher with a solid work ethic, Dusty Hannah has earned the respect of his boss. Entrusted with $30,000, he has been charged to deliver the...

A U.S. Marshal ends up in the last place he should be in this Ralph Compton western... Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles is being blackmailed—by President Chester A. Arthur. The Commander-in-Chief needs someone to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the...

A lawless town lives in the shadow of fear in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series. Tam Elliot founded Eden Creek to be a utopia of peace and prosperity. The town achieved neither, and in despair Elliot took his own life. His daughter Allison rechristened the town Suicide,...

Getting there is half the battle in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series. When Deputy Marshal Logan Kane is transporting six cold-blooded convicts across hard country, he has to be prepared for anything. Even with the half dozen hard cases caged in his prison wagon,...

In this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series, the deepest scars are the ones on a man’s soul… When Lieutenant Steve Stryker learns Rake Pierce is running guns to the Apaches, he sees his chance for vengeance. Pierce disfigured Stryker’s face while escaping from custody,...

In this Ralph Compton western, even the most rugged trailsman has to watch his steps... It’s called the Whoop-Up Trail. It’s a two hundred mile stretch of rough terrain between Montana and Canada, littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and...

One man proves his worth in this Ralph Compton western... When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never...

A bounty hunter is outgunned and under fire in this Ralph Compton western... John Tone was good at his job. Some would say ruthless. If there was killing to be done, Tone showed no mercy. In another time, far across the ocean, he had lost the only person he had ever loved—and he’d been...

In this Ralph Compton western, a man sets out on the hardest trail of his life... At fifty, cattle driver Sam Sawyer thinks he can finally dust off and retire, maybe open an eating house. But after a pack of Apache ambushes him and leaves him to die in Gila River country, he barely makes it...

Two men try to escape a town of terror in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series. The bustling town of Rawhide Flat is bursting at the seams with hard men and their hard-earned cash from working the nearby Comstock Lode. So when the bank is robbed and two civilians cut...

A detective uses his gun to speak for the opressed in this Ralph Compton western... Former big city detective John McBride is an easygoing man—until a cold-blooded town sheriff warns him to mind his own business, or face a lynching. Driven by his sense of justice, McBride takes on...