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"Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddlesore." - Publishers WeeklyBLOOD TIESThe life of a cowboy suits Thalis Christie just fine. A puncher for the Crescent H in Texas, he loves what he does and is damn good at it too. He doesn't even mind being away from his family - he's got good friends to keep him from getting too homesick. That is, until his folks write, imploring him to hunt down his brother, Myles, who's been shot while prospecting in the Black Hills.Thalis sets out to do his family duty and find his little brother - still alive, he hopes. Thalis has got his partner, Ned Leslie, by his side, as well as some other surprising travel companions, including the famous Wild Bill Hickok. But as he follows his brother's wandering trail across the country, leading him to encounter deadly obstacles from Texas to Blood Gulch, he begins to wonder if he can ever return to the comfortable life he used to lead - or if he even wants to.
About the Author
David Robbins has had over three hundred books published, both fiction and non-fiction. He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and others. He's had books published under nine different pen names. His latest include the ANGEL U series; A GIRL, THE END OF THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING: BATTLEFIELD MARS and HIT RADIO. Under his own name he is best known for ENDWORLD, a science fiction series with a post-apocalyptic setting, the first of which came out in 1986. He has also written a spin-off series called BLADE. As David Thompson he has been writing the popular WILDERNESS series for over twenty years. It's the generational saga of a Mountain Man and his family in the rugged Rockies of the 1800's. Robbins has written a number of Horror books under his own name, among them THE WERELING and PRANK NIGHT. He also penned THE RETURN OF THE VIRGINIAN, a sequel to Owen Wister's masterpiece. As Jon Sharpe, he's written over a hundred of THE TRAILSMAN books. As well as seventeen books in THE EXECUTIONER and MACK BOLAN series. He started writing relatively late in life, and over the past several decades has averaged ten published books a year.
