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    Ralph Compton Tucker's Reckoning

    Part of A Ralph Compton Western

    Author Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo
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    Berkley / NAL | Berkley
    On sale Nov 06, 2012 | 304 Pages | 9781101607770
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    A widower finds a new reason to live—and to fight—in this Ralph Compton western...
    Ever since he lost his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now, far from his native Texas in Oregon’s Rogue River region, Tucker secretly watches as two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and makes it to the next town.

    There, he learns the identity of the murdered man: Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher—and the second Farraday shot to death within the last two years. He also becomes a suspect in the shooting. But Emma Farraday, the victim’s niece, believes in his innocence—and the two must reveal the machinations of some wealthy and powerful men to prove it. If they don’t, Emma could lose the ranch and Tucker could lose his life...

    More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!
    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. View titles by Ralph Compton
    Matthew P. Mayo View titles by Matthew P. Mayo
    Praise for the novels of Ralph Compton

    “Compton may very well turn out to be 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)

    “Thrilling stories of Western legend.” —The Huntsville Times (AL)  

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    A widower finds a new reason to live—and to fight—in this Ralph Compton western...
    Ever since he lost his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now, far from his native Texas in Oregon’s Rogue River region, Tucker secretly watches as two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and makes it to the next town.

    There, he learns the identity of the murdered man: Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher—and the second Farraday shot to death within the last two years. He also becomes a suspect in the shooting. But Emma Farraday, the victim’s niece, believes in his innocence—and the two must reveal the machinations of some wealthy and powerful men to prove it. If they don’t, Emma could lose the ranch and Tucker could lose his life...

    More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

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    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. View titles by Ralph Compton
    Matthew P. Mayo View titles by Matthew P. Mayo

    Praise

    Praise for the novels of Ralph Compton

    “Compton may very well turn out to be 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)

    “Thrilling stories of Western legend.” —The Huntsville Times (AL)  

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