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BALLARD and McCALL by Neil Hunter
Mike Linaker has been using the pen name of Neil Hunter for the majority of his westerns. Mike's first published western was Incident at Butler's Station (1967), a neat variation on the "group of people under siege" theme, in this case a soldier, a band of outlaws en route to jail and a strong-willed woman, all of them trapped in a Wells Fargo way-station surrounded by Apaches. Read more about Mike/Neil. The "maverick lawman" theme surfaced in Mike's Jason Brand series, written as "Neil Hunter" and originally published in Norway by Morgan Kane publisher Bladkompaniet. Brand is a former US Marshal turned gun-for-hire, and the series contains several of Mike's most intriguing plots, such as in Devil's Gold where -- in its original form -- a trail of Confederate gold leads Brand to Jamaica, where he locks horns with a Chinese renegade and teams up with a British secret agent! However, probably his best-known western series to date is that featuring Bodie the Stalker, again written as "Neil Hunter". Bodie is a bounty hunter, and with its violent and often intense plots, this six-book series successfully recreates the mood of the old Spaghetti westerns. Now Mike has introduced his readers to two tough Texans going by the name of Chet Ballard and Jess McCall. Big men with hard fists and fast guns. You know you are in for a treat from the very first page. 
 Published August 01, 2016Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.41 |
4: COLTER’S QUEST
When Chet Ballard visits an old friend, Ben Colter, in New Mexico, he finds Colter's ranch burned to the ground, Ben and his wife Rachel missing, and the Apache who worked for Colter badly wounded. It turns out that whoever hit the ranch did so in order to kidnap Rachel. But why? |
 Published January 01, 2016Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.41 |
3: COLORADO BLOODHUNT
He rode in as an innocent man—until they branded him a killer. Then they hounded him until he had nowhere left to run. But they made one mistake. They didn’t kill Jess McCall when they had the chance, and when he got mad enough he decided it was time to turn the game around. The big Texan had been beaten and shot at and called murderer. Now he was going to his pursuers the error of their ways. Now McCall was on a hunt of his own… |
 Published October 01, 2015Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.41 |
2: GUNS OF THE BRASADA
Ballard and McCall were in Texas, working for Henry Conway, an old friend of Ballard's, on Conway's Lazy-C. But trouble was brewing as Yancey Merrick, owner of the big Diamond-M, kept pushing to expand his empire. Then Harry Conway, Henry's son, was run through the brasada thicket before being shot in the back and killed. Determined to find the guilty party, Ballard and McCall suddenly found themselves deep in a developing range war. Yancey Merrick might have had the advantage of superior numbers, but he couldn't reckon on the fighting fury of Ballard and McCall as they cut down the odds, exposed the scheme behind Merrick's long term plans, and caused it to literally blow up in his face. |
 Published February 01, 2014Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.41 |
1: TWO FROM TEXAS
THE LEGENDARY 'LOST' WESTERN BY NEIL HUNTER BEGINS A WHOLE NEW WESTERN SERIES! One of them came to Gunner's Creek at the end of a long search. The other had simply drifted into the town. Fate drew them together. Two Texans who found a town in trouble, and being who they were, had to throw in their hands to help. Chet Ballard and Jess McCall. Texicans down to the tips of their boots. Big men with hard fists and fast guns, who saw trouble and refused to back away from it… |
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