Ben Bridges has 26 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators. The most-rated is Three Ride Again.
Gunsmoke Legend
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Jack Page was a living legend - a Union Army sharpshooter, scout, Indian fighter, and US Marshal. Ash Colter, by contrast, was a mild-mannered orphan. They were complete opposites. And yet, theirs was a partnership forged in blood and destined to go down in history. These were the men who survived the famous Snake River Shootout, the men who led Colonel George Armstrong Custer to one of his most controversial victories against the Cheyenne, the men who tamed the hell-towns of Kansas and Dakota Territory. They were as close as brothers. It was said that one of them could not exist without the other. And yet, they were on opposite sides of the fence when the time came for the final bloody showdown. This time, the Gunsmoke Legends were at war with each other.
©1993, 2012 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Shoot to Kill
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Bullet-paced frontier action from six-time number-one best-selling Amazon Kindle Western writer Ben Bridges! The Texas Rangers sent Carter O'Brien south of the border with orders to kill a madman. It was said that his target - a murderous bandit named Salazar - had the face of an angel and the heart of a demon. Certainly, judging by all he'd heard, O'Brien sure figured he needed killing. Given the choice, though, he'd sooner have faced Salazar in a head-on gunfight than turn back shooter and kill him from hiding. But the only trouble with that idea lay with Salazar's eight-strong gang of cutthroats, for it was common knowledge that if you took on one of them, you took on the lot; and even a professional fighting man like O'Brien had to draw the line somewhere.
©1990, 2011 Ben Bridges (P)2015 David Whitehead
Apacheria
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A chance to live. A promise of glory. A time for revenge. After graduating from West Point Military Academy, Mississippi-born Sam Lockwood was posted to far-away Arizona Territory, where he soon grew to love the hostile desert known as Apacheria. But the Civil War dragged him back to Mississippi, where he experienced all the horrors of a savage conflict, including the hell-on-earth that was the Union prison-camp known as the Rat Hole. It was only through a strange twist of Fate that he was able to return to his beloved Apacheria. And there, beneath a buzzard-filled sky, he would also settle a long-standing debt.
©2000, 2012 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Rattler Creek
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Blistering frontier action from six-time number-one best-selling Amazon Kindle Western writer Ben Bridges! For more than 10 years Jim Allison packed a marshal's badge in the violent Indian Nations. When he finally quit, it was to move to New Mexico and get into the cattle business. For a time life was hard but good. But then a vicious killer came along and shattered his peaceful existence. Turning man-hunter again, Jim embarked upon an epic search for the sidewinder who committed the ultimate crime against him. But there was a problem - a whole pack of outlaws still remembered the big ex-lawman from his glory days. Could Jim outwit those enemies and still win his war?
©1995, 2011 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Law of the Gun
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It started with a slaughter and ended with a massacre, and by the finish of it, Sam Judge and Matt Dury had seen enough bloodshed to last them a lifetime. But the gun-fast men from Texas had signed on to help an army officer get his little girl back from the Apache renegades who’d kidnapped her, and once they gave their word, nothing would stop them from seeing a job through. Still, the odds against the success of their mission were almost as high as the odds against their survival. But Sam and Matt had one distinct advantage over their enemies. Because when it came down to cases, they could fight just as mean and just as dirty - as those enemies soon found out.
©1991, 2012 David Whitehead (P)2014 David Whitehead
Heller in the Rockies
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Luke Heller was looking forward to spending some time with his beautiful Oriental partner high in the Colorado Rockies. His job - to handle security at a luxury mountain hotel - should have been a nice, peaceful little assignment. After all, what could possibly happen in a resort full of wealthy Easterners? But Luke didn't know the half of it. Death was stalking the timbered slopes, and it came first in the shape of a grisly murder, then as a violent robbery. Almost before he knew it, the man from Tombstone was on the trail again, and calling upon all his experience as a one-time Pinkerton detective and Confederate sharpshooter in order to catch the killers in a brutal, explosive finale.
©1992, 2011 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Hang 'em All
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They rode into Austin Springs stirrup to stirrup, six men with guns in their belts and blood in their eyes. The minute Town Marshal Sam Judge clapped eyes on them he pegged them as trouble. He was right, too, because by sunset Death had called and the blood on innocents had been spilled in the town's quiet and dusty streets. Almost before he knew it, Sam once a celebrated town-tamer whom Ned Buntline himself had called "The Pistol Prince" found himself embarking on a vengeance hunt. A boy Sam hadn't seen for fifteen years was connected with the killers, so that made it personal. But first and foremost, Sam was a peace-keeper. Convinced that the law would hang 'em all, he wanted the outlaws to have their day in court. The only thing he never reckoned on was the fact that they might very well kill him before he could find and catch them.
©1989, 2013 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Montana Gunsmoke
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A desperate telegram from young Lane Jenkins brought Flint McKay north to Montana, where Randolph Billington was using every dirty trick in the book to take over the territory. But what could Flint do about it? He was just an ageing drifter with failing eyesight. He had no home and no kin, just a horse, a saddle and a pistol he’d won in a bunkhouse poker game. To Lane, though, Flint was the only man who could stand up to the buzzards who’d killed his father. As soon as Flint started making his presence felt around town, Billington sent his hired gun, Owen Thorpe, to get rid of him. But Flint was a whole heap tougher than he looked – and as the land-grabbers soon learned to their cost, he proved to be a hard man to kill.
©1999, 2012 Ben Bridges and Link Hullar (P)2014 Ben Bridges and Link Hullar
Three Rode Together
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Jesse Glover was minding his own business when Ulysses S. Grant summoned him to Washington and asked him to quit the life of a cowboy and go keep Arizona safe from the likes of Cochise and Geronimo. So Jesse saddled up and headed for Fort Bowie, and its Indian-hating commanding officer, Major Nicholas Calloway. Along the way he saved a beautiful White Mountain Apache girl named Morning Star from a monstrous fate. And when he tangled with a ruthless gang who was determined to start a whole new Indian uprising, he found help in the shape of two unlikely allies – a Zulu warrior named Sam, and a Chiricahua Apache named Goyahkla, who was better known as Geronimo. Three Rode Together was first published in hardcover under the names Steve Hayes and David Whitehead.
©2012 Steve Hayes and Ben Bridges (P)2014 Steve Hayes and Ben Bridges
Marked for Death
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A case of mistaken identity marked O’Brien out for death the minute he rode into Nebraska. A feud had erupted between the local farmers and a scheming loan agent who figured to sell them out. Both sides pegged O’Brien as a vicious gunman named Wes Dexter, who had been hired to settle the matter with violence. That made him a hero to some.... and a target for others. However, there was more to it than just that. What was the secret of the Morrison farm, for example? What would happen when the real Wes Dexter showed up? And why was O’Brien still marked for death even after he had left the Cornhusker State for far-off Wyoming?
©2012 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Trial by Fire
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Blazing frontier action from six-time number one Amazon Kindle best-selling Western writer Ben Bridges! It was probably going to be the last great wagon train ever to go up the Oregon Trail... but right now the settlers were stranded in the middle of nowhere and they needed someone to get them safely through to the Promised Land. Sam Judge, the legendary town-tamer, had captained a few trains in his day, but he had no particular hankering to relive those wild times all over again. Those settlers still had hundreds of miles to go before they reached their destination, and the way ahead was filled with all kinds of danger. But fate had other ideas for Sam, and when they finally reached trail's end, he and his gun-fast young partner, Matt Dury, found themselves under sentence of death... and about to face a trial by fire!
©1993, 2012 David Whitehead (P)2014 David Whitehead
Cold Steel
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The choice was simple. Professional fighting man Carter O'Brien could stick around Scot's Post, California, and risk taking a bullet in the back from a bully-boy with a score to settle... or he could ride up into the treacherous, winter-locked mountains on an impossible mission of mercy. They both came down to the same thing - almost certain death. But because O'Brien had never been one to pass up a challenge, he chose the mountains. The dangers were plenty - ambushers, marauding Indians, the worst kind of weather imaginable, and a silent, deadly killer. If he were to survive all that, O'Brien learned pretty quick that the job he'd signed on for would require all the cold steel he had in him.
©1995, 2012 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Tanner's Guns
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By 1913, Mexico was being torn apart by revolution. But the rebels needed guns before they could march on Mexico City and oust the corrupt General Huerta. Shady businessman Elliott Blaze had an entire arsenal for sale. All he needed was someone to deliver the goods and that's where Jake Tanner came into it. Jake was trustworthy, he spoke Spanish and he knew how to get a tough job done. In next to no time, however, he and his young British partner in crime a would-be Hollywood movie writer were playing cat-and-mouse with the armies of two countries, trying to get even with the men who double-crossed them and, in a final terrifying showdown, pitting their wits against the Mexican Army's latest secret weapon!
©1991, 2011 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Five Shots Left
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Thrilling Western stories by 13-time Amazon Kindle number-one best-selling writer Ben Bridges! When you've got only five shots left, you have to make each one count. Like the outlaw whose quest for revenge didn't quite go according to plan. Or the cowboy who ended up using a most unusual weapon to defeat his Cheyenne enemy. Then there was the storekeeper who had to face his worst fear; the down-at-heel sheepherder who had to set past hatreds aside when a bunch of renegade Comanches went on the warpath; and the elderly couple who struggled to keep a secret that threatened to tear them apart.
©2015 Ben Bridges (P)2015 David Whitehead
Hard as Nails
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More gun-swift action from Amazon Kindle 13-time number one best-selling Western writer Ben Bridges! Rancher Clint McNally was looking for someone to deliver $20,000 to the men who’d kidnapped his young son. Whoever took the job had to be as hard as nails, so professional fighting man Carter O’Brien was the natural choice. Still, McNally knew better than to trust that kind of money to one man, so he gave O’Brien a partner - a one-eyed, cigar-chewing soldier of fortune called Logan Tyree. There was just one problem; Tyree hated O’Brien’s guts because of something that had happened nine years earlier.... Right from the start O’Brien had his doubts about the job, but this time even he couldn’t guess what lay ahead for them. There were men willing to risk everything for a share of that money, and with the promise of more where that came from, he and Tyree were soon following a trail of cross and double-cross all the way to the hellish swamps of the Big Thicket....
©1987, 2020 David Whitehead (P)2021 David Whitehead
Bugles and Blood
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Best-selling Western writers Ben Bridges and Brent Towns join forces to tell the blistering adventures of Seminole-Negro Scout Lew Eden! Lew Eden was 13 when he killed his first man. A lot more died at his hand before he finally had his fill of blood and bullets. Then he decided to enlist in the newly formed Seminole-Negro Scouts, hoping to do what he could to broker peace between white man and red. But an Indian hater named Cramer killed Lew’s Sioux woman. After that, Lew wouldn’t rest until he’d put one last man in his grave. But Fate had other ideas. Scouting for General Crook, he was to take part in the Battle of the Rosebud, where the killing started up all over again....
©2017 Ben Bridges and Brent Towns (P)2018 Ben Bridges and Brent Towns
Gunsmoke Is Grey
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SIX-TIME AMAZON KINDLE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WESTERN WRITER BEN BRIDGES RIDES BACK WITH HIS MOST EXPLOSIVE ADVENTURE YET!! O'Brien was hunting bounty up in Utah when the deal blew up in his face. Now he was hurting bad and the doctor told him that he'd have to rest up for at least a couple of months before he could even think about strapping his Colt back on. Still, a feller's got to earn a living, and he was grateful when the doctor gave him a job which promised to be nice and quiet. Hardly any more than an easy little trip across the territory. But what O'Brien and his new partner found at trail's-end was a town in fear, and a copper-hungry hardcase who would stop at nothing to get at the vast wealth that lay nearby. O'Brien was in no shape to take on bully-boys. But then he'd never been one for following doctor's orders. So when it came to curing the problem in Rock View, his prescription was simple. Lead, lead ... and more lead. "Gunsmoke is Grey may just be the finest western I have ever read," – Mike Stotter, author of McKinney’s Rewvenge and Death in the Canyon
©2016 David Whitehead (P)2016 David Whitehead
Wilde Fire
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All Kate Whitney had to do to put Senator George Copperday away for life was take the witness stand and tell the court everything she knew. But if something happened to prevent her from giving evidence - like a well-aimed bullet for example — Copperday would go free. The beautiful target desperately needed protection, and it came in the form of Judge Wilde’s secret army of crime-busters, "The Wilde Boys", six of the toughest - and most unlikely - law-enforcers ever to slap leather. But what should have been a routine mission turned into something far more deadly when Copperday hired a pack of vicious killers. Soon the Wilde boys were pitting both wits and weapons against the would-be assassins in a last-ditch attempt to keep Kate alive. But in the final bloody showdown, who would live and who would die?
©1988, 2013 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
The Deadly Dollars
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From the pen of Amazon Kindle number one best-selling Western writer Ben Bridges comes.... The Deadly Dollars A mad-dog killer running loose up in the Rockies…a bank robbery that ended in death…a fortune in stolen greenbacks…and three hanged men swaying gently in the breeze.... They were all elements in a bizarre mystery the likes of which professional adventurer Carter O’Brien had never encountered before. Up until a hidden sniper damn near killed him, all he’d wanted was to ride on to his next job in nearby Jackson’s Peak, but it looked like somebody else had other ideas. Suddenly he was up to his neck in something deadly. Why had people started dying all around him? Who was the bushwhacker and his sinister Oriental sidekick? And why had they picked on him? Almost before he knew it, O’Brien found himself riding a dangerous trail of deadly dollars in order to find the answers. Too bad he didn’t know he was being watched every step of the way.... "Not just an excellent western, but a real conundrum of a mystery that I defy anyone to solve!" (Mike Stotter, author of McKinney's Revenge and Death in the Canyon)
©1988, 2020 David Whitehead (P)2020 David Whitehead
The Plainsman
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After he saw his father set upon and stabbed, nothing was ever the same for the boy who would grow up to become Buffalo Bill Cody. The hatred and bigotry his family suffered in Kansas led him to kill his first man when he was just 10 years old. And in the years that followed, he would face one battle after another - against marauding Cheyenne, against the elements and against the Great Plains themselves. But there was no quit in Will Cody. He was, as his friend Wild Bill Hickok had said, "all spit and grit". He'd need grit, too, to survive the Pony Express, the Civil War and merciless guerrilla fighters like William Clarke Quantrill and the James Boys. For Will Cody, however, the greatest challenge of his life was still to come. And even he didn't think he could survive it.
©2016 David Whitehead (P)2016 David Whitehead