Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend

The Gunfighter #5

by Carlton Stowers, Ralph Compton

In this breathless new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's the Gunfighter series, an ex-con fights to free his hometown from the clutches of a greedy land baron.

When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn’t commit.
 
His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood—and of one special girl, Darla Winslow.

What he finds instead is a town dramatically changed. Once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer Ringewald, has taken control of the town, and now he's turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. Can one ex-con single-handedly save an entire town?

Genres: Westerns

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 8, 2020

Reviews

[Jon Stallings]

Seemed like a a standard Western trope but plenty of twists to keep the story going.

[Jerry Blackerby]

Excellent read. Loved it.

[Paul]

B: Sometimes you need a decent western. Brain candy.

[Bob Hernandez]

Liked the book easy read if you like westerns

[Jacqui Tripp]

Very easy read, and for someone who lives Wild West History it was cool to be brought into an Old West atmosphere