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The Pinkerton Detective Agency had a competitor. Who knew Wanted: Sam Bass introduces the Great Western Detective League and a colorful cast of law enforcement professionals operating across the west in the late eighteen hundreds. Sam Bass launches his outlaw career in 1877 with high stakes stage and train robberies. Wells Fargo and Union Pacific want Bass and his gang. Crafty bounty hunter Briscoe Cane takes the case for the league. Pinkerton assigns agent Beau Longstreet. While Cane dogs the gang's trail Longstreet entertains ladies with information on Bass. With a hefty stack of reward money at stake Cane and Longstreet match wits to bring down Bass in a winner-take-all race to a bloody showdown in a dusty Texas town.
About the Author
Readers say, pick-up a Paul Colt book, you can't put it down. Paul Colt historical novels crackle with authenticity. His analytical insight, investigative research and genuine horse sense bring history to life. His characters walk off the pages of history into the reader's imagination in a style that blends Jeff Shaara's historical dramatizations with Robert B. Parker's gritty dialog. Paul Colt history entertains and informs. Paul writes Action Adventure, western style.Paul's Grasshoppers in Summer was recently recognized with a coveted Will Rogers Medallion Award. Grasshoppers in Summer and Friends Call Me Bat are Western Writers of America Spur Award honorees. His Boots and Saddles a Call to Glory received the Marilyn Brown Novel Award, presented by Utah Valley University. Publisher's Weekly calls it "...a stunning success." His work in western fiction gives creative expression to a life long love of the west. Paul grew up as comfortable on the back of a horse as most kids are on a bicycle. He gets his boots dirty researching a story, whenever possible from the back of a horse.
