Shane Preston and Jonah Jones - gunfighters who rode across the West and fought against injustice with fists and Colt revolvers.

26: SCARFACE

Shane checked his guns. Somewhere in Sorrendo was the man he'd been trailing for seven years. Lacey McKenna had raped and murdered his wife, and later he'd put a bullet into Shane's stomach in a border saloon.

Shane slipped his loaded guns back into their holsters. As he rode on, the long, lonely years on many trails came back to him. The searing summers with their choking dust and hot winds. The bitter winters with their snowdrifts and freezing nights. The hopes, the disappointments, the cold trails, the false clues. At times the task had seemed impossible. There had been moments when even old Jonah Jones, his loyal companion, had advised him to forget about the elusive Scarface.

But Shane had refused to forget. Someday, he used to say to Jonah, their trails would cross.

Now that someday had come.

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIES! Published December 01, 2023 / Recommended Price: £1.25

25: STAGECOACH WEST

The Bitter River Stageline was in trouble. Someone was out to ruin the business. Staff were being scared off or bought off. Stagecoaches were being robbed, passengers being abducted never to be seen again, bullion shipments intercepted and stolen. Old Abel Trent and his beautiful young daughter Carina were at their wits end.

Then Trent had an idea. He called in some help—the kind that never, ever backed down. And when he received Trent's summons, Shane Preston and his equally gun-swift partner, Jonah Jones, headed for Bitter River to lend a hand.

The prime suspect in the whole sorry business appeared to be Brad Stockman, owner of a rival stagecoach business. But were things as cut-and-dried as they appeared? And just who could Shane and Jonah trust when they started to peel back one layer after another of the mystery?

Only one thing was for sure … that when things came to a head, the gunsmoke would be thick enough to slice, and the bodies would be piled knee-deep on Main Street!

Published October 01, 2023 / Recommended Price: £1.25

24: A GATHERING OF GUNHAWKS

When he was just eight years old, Jake Clark had watched them hang his outlaw father. And for more than two decades thereafter, he nursed his hate for the man who made it happen, legendary lawman Tom Haynes. Now Haynes was an old man who'd left the badge behind and was planning on a peaceful retirement with his daughter, Natalie

It was then that Clark finally decided to strike.

But when Haynes' old friends Shane Preston and Jonah Jones appeared on the scene, Clark knew he would need help. So he called in the four swiftest gunfighters he could find: Cassettes, who dressed like a dandy and had no other name … the lynx-eyed Dave Jackson … Tim Nidd, a giant of a man who was greased lightning with a pistol … and the sinister, wraith-like Sam Tipping. It would be their job to handle Shane and Jonah while Clark himself finally enjoyed the thrill of putting a bullet right between Tom Haynes' eyes.

Clark, Cassettes, Jackson, Nidd and Tipping. It was quite a gathering of gunhawks.

Published August 01, 2023 / Recommended Price: £1.25

23: HELL AT HIGH NOON

One-time Union Army major Guthrie Schrader had big plans for the town of Boulder Rim. As soon as he moved in he closed down all the opposition and opened a string of saloons and bordellos that could separate a man from his money in a hundred different ways. And anyone who had other ideas had to learn fast to toe the line or suffer the consequences.

The sheriff, Chad Briant, learned that the hard way, with a bullet in the spine.

The people of Boulder Rim figured they were beaten … until newspaperman Tim Riegal suggested they band together and hire a new lawman, a man who was as quick with his guns as he was with his fists, a quick-witted man who wouldn't back down and fight Schrader and his bully-boys on their own violent terms.

So they sent for Shane Preston, and together with his partner, Jonah Jones, they set about bringing law back to Boulder Rim, one bullet at a time …

Published June 01, 2023 / Recommended Price: £1.25

22: TWO GUNS TO SOURWATER

Rape was followed by swift retribution … but was everything as it seemed? Shane and Jonah weren’t so sure.

The "victim"—wife of the biggest rancher in the territory—didn't appear to have any injuries to prove her story. The man the town hung for the crime had previously been of good character, and very respectful of women. And yet …

And yet the rancher hanged him without benefit of a trial, destroyed his small ranch and ran off his stock—and the local lawman didn't say a word.

Shane and Jonah, charged with protecting the dead man's daughter, made it their business to discover the truth of the matter. And that it turn led to gunplay. A whole damn' lot of it!

Published April 01, 2023 / Recommended Price: £1.25

21: DEAD MAN'S LAND

Shane Preston and Jonah Jones were on the trail when the storm hit. It was a heck of a gulley-washer and when they spotted the lights of a ranch house they hoped they might find some shelter.

Instead they found body of an old man who'd been stabbed in the back.

Who was he and why had someone singled him out for such a violent death? The local marshal didn't seem all that interested in finding out. So Shane and Jonah decided to deal themselves in and do a little investigating of their own.

What they uncovered was a bunch of land-grabbers who'd stop at nothing to get the dead man's range … even if it meant murdering the old man's estranged daughter as well!

Published February 01, 2023 / Recommended Price: £1.25

20: RED RUNS THE RIVER

It was the most perilous mission Shane Preston and Jonah Jones had ever untaken. They had to rendezvous with a gang of gunrunners, and pretending to be new recruits, discover the location of their camp … and the store of repeating rifles they were planning to sell to the Apaches!

But gang leader Sam Nachez had his doubts about them right from the start, and when it looked like they were about to be exposed as agents for the Texas Rangers, they were forced to take matters into their own hands, and slap leather.

From there, however, the situation became even more dangerous, and soon an entire town was under siege by hundreds of renegade Indians, all of them determined to get their hands on the guns, and make sure the Lone Star State was washed red with blood!

Published December 01, 2022 / Recommended Price: £1.25

19: TWELVE FOR BOOTHILL

They called themselves Zion's Children and they were headed for their own personal Paradise. But they knew nothing about life on the frontier, so they hired Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to see their wagon train through safely to its destination.

Not all was as it seemed, however. Two members of the congregation, Chadwick and Raggart, claimed to be new converts … but they still wore guns at their hips and had about them the look of owlhoots. Who were they, really? And what did they have hidden away in their wagon that they guarded so jealously?

Before Shane and Jonah would solve that particular problem, there were others to occupy them — namely, an outlaw gang led by the notorious Santos Picella, who reckoned they would be easy prey … and Lucas Crane's bunch of cutthroats, who had reasons of their own for shadowing the wagons. In the end there would be violence — a lot of it. And when the gun smoke cleared, twelve dead men would be bound for Boot Hill …

Published October 01, 2022 / Recommended Price: £1.25

18: MASSACRE CANYON

Night-riders wiped out an entire tribe of Navajo Indians. The killers said they were getting even with the Indians because they in turn had shot down old Sam Claymore.

But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in, they had their doubts. There was more going on in that corner of Arizona than met the eye, and one of the dead Indians had been a friend of Shane's from his army days, so that made it personal, too.

Shane and Jonah set about uncovering the truth of the massacre, but before it was solved they found themselves back in that canyon of death, and digging their own graves …

Published August 01, 2022 / Recommended Price: £1.25

17: THE MEXICAN KID

They called Pedro Vellere the Mexican Kid. There was no harm in him, really. But he was young and impressionable … and hell with his gun, knife and fists.

When he killed a man in self-defense, Pedro knew no one would take the side of a greaser. So it was either face a lynch-mob or make a break for it, and join up with Luther Slade's gang of hardcases. What Pedro didn't realize was that these tough gunmen weren't the romantic figures he imagined. They were hard, merciless men who’d kill just for the hell of it. By the time he wised up, it was too late — he was one of them.

Then again, maybe there was one single chance of salvation for the Mexican Kid, when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode into the town Slade's bunch had turned into a hell-on-earth. Maybe alongside these two gunfighters, Pedro Vellere would make a stand and still make good!

Published April 01, 2022 / Recommended Price: £1.25

16: DEADLY HERITAGE

Shane and Jonah were on their way to a family reunion when they happened across a couple of greenhorns about to be attacked by Apaches. It turned out that the Montagues, brother and sister, had come all the way from England to take ownership of a ranch they'd just inherited.

Shane felt obligated to see them safely to their destination … but when they arrived, he sensed an aura of mystery about the Diamond M ranch that he simply couldn't explain. Most of the old hands had been laid off, replaced by younger men, most of whom were better known as fast guns. And the old cook, who'd also been fired, talked about something "evil" going on there, but was too scared to say more.

It was a mystery Shane was determined to crack, especially when someone made an attempt on his life! But as all the clues began to unfold, he realized there was something far bigger and far more deadly going on at the Diamond M than he could ever have imagined. For the Montagues, their legacy was a deadly heritage indeed.

Published April 01, 2022 / Recommended Price: £1.25

15: BULLET FOR A SHEEPMAN

Trouble was brewing in the town of Longhorn, Utah. A band of nesters had moved onto land the local cattlemen had always previously claimed as their own. The nesters weren't breaking any laws – by order of the government, they were entitled to claim and work the land. But what made things worse was that they also happened to be the one thing no cattleman could stand … sheep men!

Judd Gunther, the biggest rancher in those parts, immediately declared war on the newcomers, and against so many hired guns, there wasn't much they could do to defend themselves – until Shane Preston and Jonah Jones happened to pass through.

Taking a shine to nester's daughter Elizabeth Cooper, and an instant dislike to Gunther and his two bully-boys sons, Jake and Efraim, Shane and Jonah decided to buy into the war, in the hope of stopping it. But when the bullets started flying, they realized things were going to get a whole lot worse before they got better.

Published February 01, 2022 / Recommended Price: £1.25

14: BANDIDO!

One hundred factory-new repeating rifles had gone missing, and if they fell into the wrong hands, the west would run red with blood.

The job of finding them and returning them to the Army fell to Shane Preston and Jonah Jones. But along the way they collected a rag-tag bunch of helpers, from a Mormon missionary to a disgraced, back-shooting sheriff.

And even when they located the rifles, getting them back to Fort Dumas wasn't going to be easy.

The Mexican outlaw Pedro Mantez wanted those weapons, and he didn't care how many innocent people his fifty-strong army of renegades had to kill to get them!

Published December 01, 2021 / Recommended Price: £1.25

13: RIDE TALL TO TOMBSTONE

Cort McBride had taken over Tombstone lock, stock and barrel. Now the town was wide-open to every hell-raiser in the territory, and the ordinary folks were no longer safe.

Sheriff Sam Spark tried to stand up to McBride and his gunman army, and died in the street for his troubles. So the town council decided to hire not one but two lawmen in his place … Shane Preston and Jonah Jones.

The stage was set for a fight to the death — and Shane and Jonah both came uncomfortably close to cashing in before the war built to a fiery climax where the winner would take all, and Tombstone would be a little piece of Heaven … or a red-hot chunk of Hell.

Published October 01, 2021 / Recommended Price: £1.25

12: THE HANGING

Lacey Doherty and his buddies hung Johnny Pancho because he was a Mexican. That's all. Just because he was a Mexican trying to make good on American soil. But Shane Preston suspected there was more to it than that. And though he and his saddle partner, Jonah Jones, had promised themselves a peaceful little fishing vacation, Shane soon found himself investigating the crime.

Everyone was against him — the townsfolk, the local cattlemen, the town's oily money-lender … and Jason Wiley, who ran a thriving lumber business and was known to have an interest in acquiring Johnny's land…

Expecting no help at all from the local law, a man who had come back from the Civil War with his nerves shot to hell, Shane and Jonah found themselves doing what they did best — fighting injustice, no matter the odds.

And everything came to a head on the morning of the hanging!

Published August 01, 2021 / Recommended Price: £1.25

11: ASSASSINS FIVE

Someone wanted the Governor of Nevada, dead — and they were willing to pay big money to get the job done. So they hired five of the coldest killers and sent them after him. When word of the assassination plot leaked out, protection was quickly arranged … in the shape of Shane Preston and Jonah Jones.

No strangers to tough fights, the two gunfighters immediately decided to get Governor Lonsdale and his beautiful daughter back to Carson City via a shortcut across the Painted Desert. But what they didn't count on was Luke Slade, a rattlesnake mean outlaw who had a personal grudge to settle with the governor.

With two sets of enemies against them, and a Judas in their own midst, Shane and Jonah had their work cut out for them. But they were going to protect the governor … or die trying!

Published June 01, 2021 / Recommended Price: £1.25

10: LAST TRAIN TO GUN RIDGE

For Shane Preston and Jonah Jones, the job was as risky as it could be. The Texas Rangers wanted them to ride into a lawless town called Sombrero and kidnap a member of Sam Hashknife's notorious outlaw gang. If they could fetch him back to Ranger headquarters, it was hoped that he'd reveal the location of Hashknife's hideout in return for his own freedom.

But Lobo Dawson proved to be a tough prisoner to hold, especially when they joined a band of mismatched passengers aboard the last train to Gun Ridge, and the final leg of their journey back to safety.

As the old loco hauled them across the pitiless Llano Estacado, Shane and Jonah found themselves faced with all kinds of treachery … and to save a young newlywed from life as an outlaw's woman, and to get even with the sadist who'd dared to whip Shane's horse Snowfire, the two gunmen crossed the blazing desert on foot to take part in an explosive showdown.

Published April 01, 2021 / Recommended Price: £1.25

09: THE JUDAS GUNS

Jake Sheward had a problem with rustlers — an entire valley filled with them! So he tried to hire Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to get rid of them for him. But when Shane and Jonah looked a little deeper into the matter, they found that the truth was very different. Telling Sheward they didn't wage war on innocent nesters — for that's what the rancher's "rustlers" really were — they decided to quit the valley and find work elsewhere.

But turning their backs on folks who needed help was something neither gunfighter could do. Especially when they heard that Sheward had hired the two homicidal Graves brothers, Pike and Lane, to do his dirty work for him. When the Graves boys started slaughtering the nesters, however, there was nothing Shane and Jonah could do to save them … not from behind the bars of a cell!

Published February 01, 2021 / Recommended Price: £1.25

08: RIDE THE HIGH MESA

Matt Gregan was a businessman — a saloonkeeper. So why did he want to buy all the ranches along the high mesa so badly? When the owners refused to sell, he fetched in a bunch of gun-toughs to make sure he got his own way, and after that things got tough for the settlers. First came the threats, then outright intimidation … and finally, gunplay.

Scared for their safety, the settlers decided to take Gregan's paltry offers for their homes and move on. But one of them, Drew Souter, had a better idea — to hire some gunmen of his own. He sent for Shane Preston and Jonah Jones … and against all the odds, they came. Now the war was ready to begin … and Gregan's secret was ready to be exposed.

Published December 01, 2020 / Recommended Price: £1.25

07: TRAITOR'S TRAIL

A fabulous fortune in Aztec treasure was said to be hidden away in the Guadalupe Mountains, all that remained of the long-dead Tenoctitlan race. But finding it was the key, for the Guadalupes were not only vast and dangerous, they were also inhabited by Apaches who considered them to be sacred ground, and had sworn to kill any invader.

Pedro Mantez knew where the treasure lay, but before he could mount an expedition, he needed protection. He chose to hire the best … Shane Preston and his partner, old Jonah Jones. Along the way they would tangle with robbers, bloodthirsty Indians and, in some cases, their own obsessive greed. Guns would blaze and men would die. But the real enemy remained in the shadows throughout it all, content to watch as the Mexican rancher and his evil companions destroyed each other. He was the Aztec god of war, destruction and death!

Published October 15, 2020 / Recommended Price: £1.25

06: HANG THE MAN HIGH

An innocent man was going to hang at sundown, for a murder he didn't commit. But not if Shane Preston and Jonah Jones could help it! Who could have possibly wanted to kill Jacob King? The rancher was universally admired, and had done great work for the town of Destiny Creek and its people. So who hated him enough to put three bullets in his back?

The town had made up its mind to Luke Wainwright's guilt. The trial was a sham, and the hanging was set for just twenty-four hours' time. There wasn't much Jonah could do to help — he was in a sick-bed, recovering from a gunshot wound. So everything hinged on Shane being able to expose the guilty party in time to prevent the hanging.

Then the unthinkable happened. Shane himself got shot — twice. And all of a sudden, Luke Wainwright was facing the hangman's noose alone.

Published August 15, 2020 / Recommended Price: £1.25

05: WAGONS WEST TO HELL

Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town on Conchita. But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to their problems. Whittaker was an old friend of Shane's, and when he asked for help in getting his emigrants to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his crusty old sidekick couldn't refuse.

The trail ahead was going to be mighty hard, though. Somewhere out in the vast wilderness, a band of renegade Cheyennes were on the warpath. And there was no shortage of problems right inside the wagon train itself. A killer with a price on his head was trying to work his way west to a new life. A fiery half-Mexican girl on the run from a vengeful husband set her cap for the preacher who hoped to bring religion to Gun Creek. And three men masquerading as prospectors were planning a double-cross that would send the wagons and their occupants straight to hell!

Published June 01, 2020 / Recommended Price: £1.25

04: THE DEATH RIDERS

Twenty years earlier, Dan Eckert had been an outlaw with a desire to go straight. By selling out his companions, the notorious McCabe gang, he earned himself a full pardon.

There was just one problem.

Two decades later, the McCabe gang broke out of prison and came looking for revenge. Eckert, now the respected town marshal of Sweetwater, knew he couldn’t fight them by himself, so he hired Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to help even the odds. But the one thing nobody anticipated was the actions of Sweetwater itself.

Fearful of the McCabe gang and what they might do if crossed, the locals decided to offer up Eckert as a sacrificial lamb … and there was no way on earth that Shane and Jonah could buck an entire town!

Published April 01, 2020 / Recommended Price: £1.25

03: VALLEY OF THE LAWLESS

The Homestead Act allowed nesters to move onto open range and build new lives for themselves. But for the cattlemen — and Linc Boormann in particular — it meant giving up land he had previously used, free of charge, to feed and house his vast herds. Boormann's answer was simple … to run off the nesters by any means necessary, no matter how brutal.

The merciless execution of one such nester brought wandering gunfighters Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to Wolf Valley, and the minute they arrived, open war was declared in no uncertain terms. But all the odds were stacked against them. They were two men against an army of gun-toughs. The local sheriff was in Boormann's pocket, so they couldn't expect any help from him.

But that was the thing about Shane and Jonah. No matter how impossible things looked, there was just no quit in them. No quit at all.

Published February 01, 2019 / Recommended Price: £1.25

02: TWO GUNS TO APACHE WELLS

Rancher's daughter Rebecca Donnell was sentenced to death after recognizing one of the men who robbed the stage she was travelling on. Her father knew only that she had vanished off the face of the earth, so he hired the only two men he felt could possibly find her — or her body — Shane Preston and Jonah Jones.

The two gunfighters rode into the wilderness with no guarantees of success, but once they took a man's money they never quit a job until it was complete. First they found the missing stagecoach, or what was left of it. Then they found three shallow graves …

Their quest should have ended there. But the lean gunfighter and his crusty old companion knew they wouldn't rest until they settled with the killers themselves, the so-called Long Knife Gang.

Published December 01, 2019 / Recommended Price: £1.25

01: GUN LAW AT HANGMAN'S CREEK