Ralph Cotton: 18 books

Old ways and new clash in head-on confrontation. When journeyman hit man Ray Dylan agrees to look in on Sami Bloom, former mistress of a deceased Canadian crime financier, he realizes he must keep his profession a secret. What he doesn't realize is how difficult that is now that he has fallen...

The Ranger lives for the hunt. The Outlaw lives for the killing. Now they are about to come face to face at last. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a man of courage with a lightning-quick draw. His goal is swift justice, and his aim is as sure as death. With a .58 caliber rifle behind his saddle...

One man stands for justice and the law, the other stands for murder and mayhem. Both are about to reach a point of no return . . . .     The Ranger makes his living tracking down dangerous criminals who have long eluded the law. His goal is swift justice and his aim is certain death....

Along the road to Paradise . . . “We can sympathize with a man being short on cash, times being such as they are.” He eyed Ellis’s horse and said, “We just lost our pack mule two days ago. I always say, a good riding animal is just as good  as legal tender...

Where Legend Begins Years before he became famous as The Ranger, young Samuel Burrack was a buffalo hunter trying his hand at enterprise on the Western Frontier. When his best friend is murdered, his first instinct is simple - find the killers and deliver justice. Joined by legendary Ranger...

Lawless Justice . . . In the town of Bannet, Doss Edding, son of a wealthy land baron, led the cold-blooded Half Moon Gang on a spree of theft and murder that should have put him behind bars for the rest of his life. But the corrupt local law has set the accused man free to wreak more havoc. Arizona...

Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart arrived too late to rescue his father. But the elder Hart managed to identify his killers before his death - by scrawling the phrase "Los Pistoleros" in his own blood.     Since the end of the Civil War, this outlaw gang has been involved in everything from cattle...

When a fellow lawman falls ill, Sam Burrack - better known as the Ranger - agrees to take the reins of the territory's infamous jail wagon. Driving straight across the territory, the Ranger must keep tabs on a motley group of prisoners, including the younger brother of J.C. McLawry, leader of the...

Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken the back of the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest - the man who killed his father.     But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail, and he's determined to rebuild his criminal empire....

As the ranger's eyes searched, his hands deftly opened the Colt, dropped the one empty cartridge to the dirt, replaced it and snapped the chamber shut.      He slipped the Colt into his tied-down holster, but loosely, knowing that he might suddenly require its use again. Some parts...

Carl O'Bannion was a mere boy when his parents were mercilessly gunned down by a gang of former Union guerrillas led by Major Jamison "Wolf" Avrial. Now after ten years of perfecting his skills as a gunslinger, O'Bannion is known far and wide as Carlos the Snake.     Ranger Sam Burrack...

Ever since Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart lost his father to ruthless J.T. Priest, he's hoped to find the outlaw leader and bring him down. When hanging judge Isaac Parker sends Hart and his partner, Twojack Roth, to break up Priest's infamous gang, Los Pistoleros, he is only too willing to fulfill...

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is on the trail of a gang of Yuma jailbreakers led by the blood-thirsty Suela Soto, and he’s leaving a trail of death and destruction. The pursuit will bring Sam up against one of the most infamous criminal gangs ever to pull a heist in the West—the Hole in the Wall...

At Cold Devil, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack and Federal Marshal Pete Summers apprehend two wanted men—one of whom has posted a ten-thousand-dollar bounty on the lawmen’s heads. When Sam is dry gulched and Pete is wounded, a pretty young gypsy and her family nurse the lawmen back to health....