O'Brien 12: Cold Steel

by Ben Bridges

MORE BULLET-PACED FRONTIER ACTION FROM AMAZON KINDLE 21-TIME NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WESTERN AUTHOR BEN BRIDGES! COLD STEEL The choice was simple. Professional fighting man Carter O’Brien could stick around Scot’s Post, California, and risk taking a bullet in the back from a bully-boy with a score to settle … or he could ride up into the treacherous, winter-locked mountains on an impossible mission of mercy. They both came down to the same thing – almost certain death. But because O’Brien had never been one to pass up a challenge, he chose the mountains. The dangers were plenty – ambushers, marauding Indians, the worst kind of weather imaginable and a silent, deadly killer. If he were to survive all that, O’Brien learned pretty quick that the job he’d signed on for would require all the cold steel he had in him. "A superb, natural story-teller," -- Twentieth Century Western Writers "Ben Bridges is arguably the best western writer Britain has ever produced," -- Steve Hayes, author of Viva Gringo!

111 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 1995

About the author

For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a writer, but it was my Dad, Henry Whitehead, who really fostered my interest in the west. As a security man employed by a large chemical company, he often found himself working the nightshift by himself, and to pass the long, lonely hours he would hand-copy pictures from old Buffalo Bill Annuals and then fetch them home for me to colour in.

During the day, Dad also made up western stories and dictated them into our old reel-to-reel tape recorder, so that I could listen to them when I got home from school. He even added sound effects as he went along, wiggling his fingers in a bowl of water to give the impression of outlaws fording a shallow stream, or bursting balloons to simulate gunfire. So it's really no wonder that I eventually developed such an interest in the west.

As I grew older, I started reading just about every western I could lay my hands on. I began with J T Edson's Floating Outfit novels and eventually moved on to the Larry and Stretch westerns of Marshall Grover (a.k.a. Leonard F Meares). Along the way, I also started writing westerns of my own, the adventures of Clint Jones, Railroad Detective, being among the earliest.

Reviews

[Charles Myers, Mr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Right on form

This western delivers exactly what you expect. An entertaining story. With a hero who is consistent. The hero prevails in the end.

[Larrygebert · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased this e-book from Amazon four days ago for my Kindle.I leapfrogged it to the top of my TBR pile. And i am glad i did it was great as is Ben Bridges other books.I read this mostly in one sitting as it get kept me turning pages in the middle of the night.I heartily recommend this book. And for other great westerns coming out every month is Piccadilly Publishing,great books i buy them every month.