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John Riley Bounty Hunter: The Killing Trail by [Ronnie Ashmore]

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A Western Adventure by Ronnie Ashmore

"Ashmore creates fierce characters with confidence and authority. A fresh and welcome Western narrative." -Best-Selling Author Ralph Cotton

John Riley has a plan to wait out the winter by a warm fire until a rancher hires him to track a killer. Now Riley is on the trail of a killer like he has never seen before. With a backtrail littered with dead men, Tom Karnes follows his own path on his own terms. Riley’ abilities are put to the test by trailing the outlaw across the rough country. It soon becomes clear Riley is out matched and he starts to doubt he will ever survive the killing trail.

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Riley slid his pistol from his holster keeping it hid under the table. He decided to push the two men, hopefully into a mistake. The room was empty except for the four.
“Yeah, you are a fool. I’m looking for Karnes. If you know anything you should really tell me.”
“Why should we?” the quiet one said. His voice was gruff and dry sounding like he had sand stuck in his throat.
The mouthy one moved his hand to his gun. In one movement Riley came up from his chair and hit him over the head with the barrel of his gun.
The man crumpled to the floor in a heap, his gun falling uselessly to the floor. Sally Jones gave a little gasp as Riley unleashed his swift violence on the man.
As soon as he hit the mouthy one, he spun to cover the quiet man pointing his gun at him. The man had not moved from his chair and gave no indication that he wanted to.
He looked at his fallen friend, “You’re right. We are fools.”
“You know Karnes?”
“Played cards with him, until he beat Sherman up. Me and Hoss there pulled Karnes off. He left heading north.”
“Why harass me?”
“Nothin’ personal.” He nodded toward his friend, “Hoss found out there was a reward for Karnes. Heard you was a bounty hunter.”
Riley holstered his pistol and sat back down to his meal. Sally was staring at the lump of man on the floor.
“What are you going to do with him?” she asked.
“Nothin’. He picked this fight. I told him he couldn’t win.”
With that the man stood, picked up his friend’s pistol, and left the restaurant leaving him unconscious in the floor. Sally looked back at Riley.
“You’re mighty quick to strike out,” she said.
“We need to be gone by daylight tomorrow. I’ll meet you at the livery if you still want to go along.”
“I ain’t changing my mind. I want to see Karnes punished for killin’ my poor excuse for a husband. I will see you in the morning.”
They rode out before the sun was up, Riley checking his backtrail to make sure they were not followed. He pointed the horses north, unsure where Karnes was headed.
They rode in silence, which seemed to be their habit, until mid-day. Riley could tell Sally was wore out from the hard riding of the last few days. She slowly went about making coffee as Riley tended to the horses.
He glanced back at the woman. She was prettier than he thought when he had first seen her. But life on the Texas frontier was hard on women, and she had a face that was beginning to age before its time. He quickly glanced away as she looked up.
“You thinkin’ on somethin’, John?”
“Thinkin’ Karnes is a fool to come all the way out here. Ain’t much civilization out here. Too much farther we will be deep in Indian country.”
“You know this area?”
“No. I do have a vague notion of what’s ahead of us.”
“We are a long way from where we started, huh, Mr. Riley.”
He noticed how she called him Mr. when before it was John. Despite that, he could not disagree.

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Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B6RNHX9T
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Creative Texts Publishers, LLC (July 15, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2027 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 87 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #304,863 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,507 in Cultural Heritage Fiction
- #2,525 in Two-Hour Literature & Fiction Short Reads
- #4,098 in Westerns (Kindle Store)

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Ronnie Ashmore

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Ronnie Ashmore is a veteran police officer and two-time chief of police who started his law enforcement career as a jailer and worked his way up through the ranks.

He writes novels involving crime thrillers and westerns. He has an ability to give his characters an authentic voice and a sense of reality.

When he is not working or writing and has some spare time, he enjoys playing golf, fishing, and traveling.

You can contact him at ronnieashmore@mail.com

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Danny Harr

John Riley

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2021

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This is a very good book. I like this series and will continue with the next book. I recommend this if you like Westerns and bounty hunting

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Wayne clark

AFTER DINNER RELAXING READ

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2021

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I love the way the author never leaves the reader ‘hanging’, but always keeps you up to date on what’s happening. It’s a great after dinner book for relaxing and maybe just helping to take a nap. I recommend it to all my reading friends, and anyone looking for good clean western read. I give it a five because every seems to be a Winn er, even the losers.

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Western fan

Great story. Unusual ending

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2021

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Loved this character. Hopefully the series keeps going. I want more

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 6, 2021

The bounty hunter is a young fellow, tough and I wanted him to get his man. But then I met the bad guy and it was hard not to root for him. I enjoyed this story and look forward to reading more of Ashmore's books.

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Jeff Benham

Tom Karnes is easy to track. Just following the trail of people he murders

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2022

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Even bounty hunters don't like the cold and miserable weather that is approaching. John Riley is no exception. He had no plans to track down outlaws. A man comes and begs him to find the scum that murdered his son in cold blood. Riley would soon find out that Karnes is a man that likes killing for no reason. This is a very good western and an interesting read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2021

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Found this author when he paired John Riley up with the Casey Nash character, US Marshal Jubal Stone. Riley brings in horse thief Lem Jenkins. Before he can be hung, Lem escapes and Riley takes off after him. Jenkins might have stolen a horse, but he is not a desperado. He doesn't believe in killing or violence. The ending shouldn't come as much of a surprise.

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