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Wanted: Dead
Bounty hunter Bodie Kendrick makes a living bringing in wanted men. Sometimes face down across a saddle. This time, though, the job is different. He’s being paid to safely escort a man home who’s already served his prison sentence. But there is another man—a powerful individual whose thirst for revenge burns hot even after seven years—who wants the ex con to get his new start only one way … Dead! He’s hired an army of ruthless killers to make that happen. In order to keep them from having their way, Kendrick will have to match them bullet for bullet across two hundred miles of rugged country packed with even more danger before he can call his job done.
199 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 15, 2017
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Wayne D. Dundee
92 books20 followersWayne Dundee lives in the once-notorious old cowtown of Ogallala, on the hinge of Nebraska's panhandle. To date, Dundee has had six novels, three novellas, and over two dozen short stories published. All of the novels and most of the short stories have featured his PI protagonist, Joe Hannibal. He also writes in the fantasy, straight crime, and Western genres. Dismal River is his first Western novel.
Titles in the Hannibal series have been translated into several languages and nominated for an Edgar, an Anthony, and six Shamus Awards. Dundee also founded and was the original editor of Hardboiled Magazine.
A short Western story was recently named winner of the Peacemaker Award from the Western Fictioneers.
Titles in the Hannibal series have been translated into several languages and nominated for an Edgar, an Anthony, and six Shamus Awards. Dundee also founded and was the original editor of Hardboiled Magazine.
A short Western story was recently named winner of the Peacemaker Award from the Western Fictioneers.
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August 27, 2017
Bounty hunter Bodie Kendrick is on the job again.
Only this time around (in the fifth book of the series), Bodie isn't intent on bringing bad guys to justice. Instead it's his job is to protect Tyrone Avery, a man fresh out of jail and with a $50,000 price on his head.
Avery is the target of a man with a thirst for vengeance and his money is attracting a horde of hunters, chief among them Blue Tom Iverson, a tough man of Kendrick's acquaintance--a man who has often walked a narrow line between good and bad.
Taking a rugged path through the mountains to evade Iverson and his crew, Kendrick and Avery stumble onto another hornet's nest--remnants of the Lansing outlaw gang. Kendrick isn't immediately aware of it, but Telford Lansing, leader of the gang, has been taken into custody by a marshal and temporarily held in a small, nearby town where he and Avery are headed. Telford's brother Leon and the gang have plans to raid the town and free the prisoner.
The story bristles with action from the start. There's more to come, along with some unexpected twists and turns. As always is the case in a Dundee western tale, the characters are complex and well-drawn, the plot is riveting and the descriptions so accurate you smell the dust and feel the bite of cactus needles.
If you have yet to read a Bodie Kendrick story, you owe it to yourself to grab one now. And this is as good a place to start as any. Trust me, you'll want to read the rest, too.
Only this time around (in the fifth book of the series), Bodie isn't intent on bringing bad guys to justice. Instead it's his job is to protect Tyrone Avery, a man fresh out of jail and with a $50,000 price on his head.
Avery is the target of a man with a thirst for vengeance and his money is attracting a horde of hunters, chief among them Blue Tom Iverson, a tough man of Kendrick's acquaintance--a man who has often walked a narrow line between good and bad.
Taking a rugged path through the mountains to evade Iverson and his crew, Kendrick and Avery stumble onto another hornet's nest--remnants of the Lansing outlaw gang. Kendrick isn't immediately aware of it, but Telford Lansing, leader of the gang, has been taken into custody by a marshal and temporarily held in a small, nearby town where he and Avery are headed. Telford's brother Leon and the gang have plans to raid the town and free the prisoner.
The story bristles with action from the start. There's more to come, along with some unexpected twists and turns. As always is the case in a Dundee western tale, the characters are complex and well-drawn, the plot is riveting and the descriptions so accurate you smell the dust and feel the bite of cactus needles.
If you have yet to read a Bodie Kendrick story, you owe it to yourself to grab one now. And this is as good a place to start as any. Trust me, you'll want to read the rest, too.
June 10, 2018
About a half hour ago, Mr. Avery was released from Iron Gate Territorial Prison in the Arizona Territory. A transport wagon driven by Rudy Haemmler is being used to transport the just released convict to the nearest town of Fordsburg. Mr. Avery has no idea why the four men on horseback on the narrow trail ahead of them want him so badly they have blocked and stopped the transport. While the heavily armed men claim to have been sent by friends of Mr. Avery to escort him for his safety back home to Tonto City their appearance and behavior indicate otherwise.
Things probably would have violently escalated right then and there if not for the timely intercession of Bounty Hunter Bodice Kendrick. Seven years for a manslaughter conviction there are many folks that want Mr. Avery dead as soon as possible. In a twist from his normal paying work as a bounty hunter, Bodie Kendrick has been hired to keep Mr. Avery alive and get him to another town in the area where he has some friends waiting for him.
Easier said than done. Blue Tom Iverson and his men are not going to let that happen easily. And they may not be the only folks in the harsh desert country looking to get Avery and anyone with him one way or another.
Wanted: Dead is the latest in a rich and highly entertaining western series that began with Hard Trail to Socorro. Wayne D. Dundee has created a complex western series where each tales has elements of a mystery at work that also serves to push the tale forward. This read, like the others, features complex characters doing what they must to survive while at the same time plenty of action keeps things moving at a rapid rate. Wanted: Dead, like the rest of the series that is best when read in order, is a mighty good read and strongly recommended.
Wanted: Dead (Bodie Kendrick—Bounty Hunter Book 5)
Wayne D. Dundee
http://fromdundeesdesk.blogspot.com/
Bil-Em-Ri Media
August 2017
ASIN: B074V231T9
E-Book
199 Pages
$2.99
A word file was supplied by the author several months ago with absolutely no expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2018
Things probably would have violently escalated right then and there if not for the timely intercession of Bounty Hunter Bodice Kendrick. Seven years for a manslaughter conviction there are many folks that want Mr. Avery dead as soon as possible. In a twist from his normal paying work as a bounty hunter, Bodie Kendrick has been hired to keep Mr. Avery alive and get him to another town in the area where he has some friends waiting for him.
Easier said than done. Blue Tom Iverson and his men are not going to let that happen easily. And they may not be the only folks in the harsh desert country looking to get Avery and anyone with him one way or another.
Wanted: Dead is the latest in a rich and highly entertaining western series that began with Hard Trail to Socorro. Wayne D. Dundee has created a complex western series where each tales has elements of a mystery at work that also serves to push the tale forward. This read, like the others, features complex characters doing what they must to survive while at the same time plenty of action keeps things moving at a rapid rate. Wanted: Dead, like the rest of the series that is best when read in order, is a mighty good read and strongly recommended.
Wanted: Dead (Bodie Kendrick—Bounty Hunter Book 5)
Wayne D. Dundee
http://fromdundeesdesk.blogspot.com/
Bil-Em-Ri Media
August 2017
ASIN: B074V231T9
E-Book
199 Pages
$2.99
A word file was supplied by the author several months ago with absolutely no expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2018
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