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Ralph Compton Big Jake's Last Drive
  • Published: 2 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9780593102244
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $19.99
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Ralph Compton Big Jake's Last Drive

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In this riveting new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's The Trail Drive series, two old ranch hands lead one last trail drive, but they can't escape death along.

Two old ranch hands lead one last trail drive but they can't escape death along the way in a brand new thrilling western in Ralph Compton's trail drive series.

Big Jake Motley had been running the Big M spread in Texas for over 30 years. In that time, he's driven thousands of head of cattle to market in Kansas. Now, while both the Nineteenth century and the era of trail drive are coming to an end, Big Jake is determined to make one last drive to Kansas. The only thing is, he doesn't have the cowhands to move that much beef. He drafts his old friend, Chance McCandles, into service, and together, the two aging cowboys put together a crew.

The trail to Kansas is fraught with dangers both natural and man made, but when Chance is killed by rustlers, Big Jake has one more task in before him, extract vengeance for his old friend.
  • Published: 2 June 2020
  • ISBN: 9780593102244
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the authors

Robert J. Randisi

Robert J. Randisi is the author of the Miles Jacoby, Nick Delvecchio, and Joe Keough mystery series. He has been nominated four times for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Mystery/Suspense Convention. He is the editor of more than 25 print and audio anthologies, including the Deadly Allies, Lethal Ladies, For Crime Out Loud and First Cases series. His most recent anthologies are The Shamus Game (NAL, 2000) and Mystery Street (NAL, 2001), both PWA anthologies.

His most recent book, Blood on the Arch (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), a “Joe Keough” novel, will be published in paperback from Leisure Books this fall. The year 2001 will see the publication of the novel The Masks of Auntie Laveau, co-authored with Christine Matthews, as well as Delvecchio’s Brooklyn, a collection of his “Nick Delvecchio” short stories. He is the Founder and Permanent Executive Director of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, the co-founder of Mystery Scene magazine and The American Crime Writer’s League, and the former mystery reviewer for The Orlando Sentinel.

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Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.
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Praise for Ralph Compton Big Jake's Last Drive

PRAISE FOR RALPH COMPTON:
"Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey...thrilling stories of Western legend."--The Huntsville Times (AL)
"The greatest Western writer of them all....Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted."--The Tombstone Epitaph
"If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton."--Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)
"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore."--Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR RALPH COMPTON:
"Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey...thrilling stories of Western legend."--The Huntsville Times (AL)
"The greatest Western writer of them all....Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted."--The Tombstone Epitaph
"If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton."--Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)
"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore."--Publishers Weekly