O'Brien 7: North of the Border

by Ben Bridges

MORE GUN-FAST ACTION FROM SIX-TIME NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING KINDLE WESTERN WRITER BEN BRIDGES!

For months now it had been Roddy Bruce-Morgan’s dream to ride north of the border and make his fortune up in the uncharted wilderness men called Alaska. But unlike the prospectors already flooding into the so-called ‘Great Land’, the young Scotsman had no intention of panning for gold.

“Oh no,” he told professional fighting man Carter O’Brien the day he hired him. “Quite the contrary. I plan to take a commodity far more valuable than that into Alaska, and once there, to sell it for top dollar.”

But what kind of commodity could be more valuable than gold? And why did Bruce-Morgan need O’Brien to bodyguard him on the thousand-mile trek?

As one bloody confrontation with Bruce-Morgan’s enemies followed another, O’Brien began to get his answers. But by then it was too late to turn back …

"Ben Bridges just gets better and better," -- Mike Stotter, author of McKINNEY'S REVENGE

142 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 22, 2013

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

[Martha Peebles · Rating 5 out of 5]

O'Brien

Always enjoy reading the books on O'Brien, lots of action and adventure. Thank you Ben Bridges for a great read.

[Jenny Hosey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book.