| Bill Riley's Head Contributor(s): Hirt, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1432838172 ISBN-13: 9781432838171 Publisher: Five Star Publishing OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2017022961 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 223 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What one does for love and money The love being Francine Toutant. The money being one Bill Riley--notorious Dakota Territory outlaw. Thus, we find bounty hunter T. J. Ragland riding across the bleak Dakota Territory carrying the head of Bill Riley in a gunny sack, bound for Fort Leavenworth where a three-thousand-dollar bounty reward awaits him. Reaching the sorry little town of Bend City, tucked into a wide bend in the Missouri River, Ragland intends to catch a riverboat to Fort Leavenworth. Due to some poor decisions, Bill Riley's head is stolen. Marshal Bethany Bulger is a no-nonsense sort of woman who would like nothing better than for Ragland to leave town. Ragland finds this curious until he discovers that Bethany and some other folks are neck deep in insurance fraud. Throw in a drunken Indian, an undercover Pinkerton's detective, foreign agents, and murder, and Ragland quickly discovers a lot more is happening in Bend City than its sleepy appearance suggests. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hirt, Douglas: - Douglas Hirt earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Santa Fe and a master of science degree from Eastern New Mexico University. During this time, he spent summers living in a tent in the New Mexico desert, conducting biological surveys for the US Department of Energy. Doug drew heavily from this desert life for his first novel, Devil's Wind. Doug's 1991 novel, A Passage of Seasons, won the Colorado Authors League Top Hands award. His books, Brandish and Deadwood, were 1998 and 1999 finalists for the SPUR award given by the Western Writers of America. Bone Digger, his 2015 novel, received the Peacemaker award from Western Fictioneers. A short-story writer and author of over forty books and numerous articles, Doug makes his home in Colorado with his wife Kathy. They have two children and two grandchildren. When not writing or traveling, Doug enjoys restoring old English sports cars. |
