Hangman's Creek

Luke Starbuck #1

by Matt Braun

"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton

In a place called No Man's Land
Texas rancher Ben Langham hireD Luke Starbuck for his loyalty and toughness gained by riding with Rip Ford's Texas volunteers. But when Langham sent Starbuck after a band of horse thieves, a loyal man left behind the only home he had ever known-and met the stranger in himself.

One man found a home...
To track down a thief, Starbuck posed as an outlaw, misled his woman, and killed to protect his own life. Then he rode into a kingdom of vicious horse thieves and entered into a fierce duel with a criminal mastermind hiding behind a respectable life. Somewhere along the line, honest, hardworking Starbuck discovered that he was a changed man-one who had forged himself a freedom and a future in a place where other men died...

"BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

Genres: Westerns

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Matt Braun is an author of fifty-six books, most of which are in the Western genre and has over 40 million copies in print.

Reviews

[Deandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed it. It was entertaining but it took me a moment to wrap my head around it... I'm used to Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. This author is a bit more honest with his language and it has... gasp... dirty bits! Okay quick and dirty... dirty bits... but still, I'm used to Zane Grey. Just sayin. All in all it was a yarn, which is what I look for in a Western.

[Calvin Daniels · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a full 4, but a solid western that will have me chasing more books in the series.

[Drew]

Hangman's Creek (A Luke Starbuck Novel) by Matt Braun (2002)

[Violet · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fast moving tale of an ordinary ranch hand who took on the job of range detective in the 1800's to stop the horse thieves. Very entertaining. A good one to stuff in your carryon travel bag.