Savage Guns

Cotton Pickens #3

by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

Spoiled, brash King Bragg is going to hang for the murder of three men in a barroom.

In a town full of fools and sinners, of men bad and downright evil, a gallows is going up and time is running out. And a young, skinny undereducated lawman named Cotton Pickens is standing up to a savage storm--with only one gun on his side...

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

327 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling Western writer in America and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over 50 million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as "the Greatest Western writer of the 21st Century." Visit him online at WilliamJohnstone.net.

Reviews

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fairly authentic though, personally, I don't much care for an "accent" in a book. Funny-sounding names for people and cities.

Book opens up with the sheriff sitting on a "two-holer" (yep, the john) and wiping with a Monkey Ward catalog--and even describes which pages he reads (women's undies) and which he uses to clean up . . . Then a bullet flies over his head and a posse is waiting to kidnap him right outside.

Good stuff.

[Barry Gardner · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don’t enjoy a constant narrative about problems that people have on a seemingly day to day basis. I think that this has been the most crude writing that Johnstone has written. Nothing that keeps you wanting to read more.

[Teressa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a good western and mystery

[Jeff J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

#3 in the Cotton Pickens western series.

[Kurt Weber · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm starting to get mighty tired of how stupid Cotten Pickens is.

[Randy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sheriff Cotton Pickens has a lot of trouble in his town of Doubtful, Wyoming. Young King Bragg is scheduled to be hanged for the murder of three men.

The boy's father has promised if his innocent boy is hanged, the Sheriff will be right behind him.

Also, the boss of the three dead men, Crayfish Ruble, has promised that the boy will be hanged, either legally or illegally.

Both sides have an army of gun slicks backing them.

Pickens, in his investigation, comes to believe the boy is innocent, despite the trial and witnesses to the contrary. The old judge is a hard head. Without evidence, the hanging will go off as scheduled.

As the day comes closer, tension mounts in the town and Pickens wonders if he can find the evidence needed. Or will an innocent young man die, sure to spark a spate of violence in the little town.

[Mickey Gregory · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crude start, ended up being a good read