Tornado Trail

by John Russell Fearn

When Rod comes back from his latest cattle deal, the last thing he expects to come home to is a ghost town. How could a town with over a thousand inhabitants become deserted overnight? But the ghost town maybe isn’t as empty as it seems – down at the bank, there’s plenty going on. Outlaw Tim Fancourt and his gang are in the middle of a robbery but when Rod shows up just in time to chase them off, he ends up framing himself for their crime. Not content to let her fiancée rot in jail, Val Shane vows to break him free and the two set out in search of justice. But justice is hard to come by in the Old West and together, the two of them will have to fight against all odds if they want to bring down Fancourt and his gang. With neither the law, nor luck on their side, Val and Rod will have to get by on pure grit. Only strength and determination will save them from the hangman’s rope. In this thrill-a-minute tail of redemption, the Old West will be made new again on this Tornado Trail . 'A classic story of adventure and courage in the Old West.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off. John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) is well remembered as almost single-handedly driving the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, and westerns. His writing appeared under various pseudonyms and has been translated into many languages around the world. Pioneering Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK’s leading independent digital publisher. We publish new and classic westerns by authors from the US and the UK. Follow us on @PioneeringPress www.goodreads.com/PioneeringPress

158 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2016

About the author

A prolific author in various genres under his own name, John Francis Russell Fearn also used these pseudonyms: Astron del Martia, Brian Shaw, Conrad G. Holt, Dennis Clive, Frank Jones, Geoffrey Armstrong, Griff, Hugo Blayn, John Russell, K. Thomas Mark Denholm, Paul Lorraine, Polton Cross, Spike Gordon, Thornton Ayre, Vargo Statten, Volsted Gridban, Dom Passante, John Cotton, Ephriam Winiki, Lawrence F. Rose, Earl Titan, Ephraim Winiki.

John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Staten’s Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950’s! His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world.

Reviews

[Vickie D. Petersen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good with qualifications

Very well thought out plot with a little unexpected turns but also some predicated happenings. Basically a fun read but there were some bad "saying quotes". A lot of the old sayings were wrong and in p!aces English terms were used instead of American terms. Somewhat distracting, especially when it was written as an early American story.