Last Command/Apache Ambush

by Will Cook

Two classic Westerns in one low-cost volume. In Last Command, a colonel nearing retirement is determined to hang a renegade Apache before vacating his post. In Apache Ambush, a man once held prisoner by the Apaches will stop at nothing to avenge their torturous crimes.

318 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

William Everett Cook was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1922 and died in 1964. He began writing for publication in 1952 for Popular Library. During his short life Cook was a soldier, commercial aviator, deep-sea diver, logger, peace officer, and writer of western and adventure novels and stories. His hobbies included sports car racing, sailing, judo, and barbershop singing. His pseudonyms include Wayne Everett, James Keene, Frank Peace, and William Richards.

William Everett Cook was a writer of western and adventure novels and stories. Collection consists of correspondence (273 letters), manuscripts for his novels, short stories, and one novella, and an extensive collection of western pulp fiction containing short stories by Cook.

Reviews

[Barker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most western writer spend so much time writing about the scenery and the western life. This book go right to the story. Which is different and a good one. It is refreshing to read a good plot that happens to be a western.