J. A. Johnstone has 176 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 143 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 91 ratings. The most-rated is The Frontiersman.
Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter
Summary
Best-selling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone capture the gritty side of the Old West with their Jensen novels. Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter is the first in an exciting new series starring Smoke's long-lost brother. During the Civil War, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen is ordered to smuggle gold out of the city - but he ends up robbed and shot. Taken in by a Georgia farmer, Luke slowly recovers. Though he plans to rejoin Smoke, a budding romance with the farmer's daughter delays his departure - until a tragic event changes everything.
©2012 William W. Johnstone (P)2012 Recorded Books
Frontier America
Summary
Preacher + MacCallister = Double the mayhem Two of the Johnstones' most legendary heroes - the rugged mountain man known as Preacher and the Scottish clan rancher, Jamie Ian MacCallister, here together for the first time - are forced to choose sides in a blood-soaked battle for the heart and soul of a nation divided.... Frontier America As the father of a young Crow tribesman, Preacher would like nothing more than to see the long-time natives and newly arrived settlers live together in peace. Then, the killing starts.... As a family man and frontiersman, Jamie Ian MacCallister is more than happy to help the officers at Fort Kearny negotiate a peace treaty with the Crow nation. Until it all goes to hell.... This is not the American dream they were looking for. This is a nightmare. A brutal, blood-drenched frontier war that two heroic men must fight and win - or one struggling nation will never come together. For liberty and justice for all....
©2019 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
A Knife in the Heart
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In this action-packed Hank Fallon Western, the falsely imprisoned lawman finds himself holding the keys to one of America's most dangerous penitentiaries.... He's always on his guard. As both a prisoner and an undercover operative, US Marshal Hank Fallon has faced down some of the most vicious, terrifying, cold-blooded thieves and murderers in the West. Now, Hank is finally free, and he's got no intention of setting foot inside a jail ever again. But the new federal prison being constructed in Leavenworth, Kansas, needs a warden, and Hank is the right man for the job. He's got the scars to prove it - and to keep the peace. But keeping these lawless hornets in their nest is no easy feat. And when several escape before Leavenworth is at maximum security, they take Hank's family hostage. To save his wife and baby daughter, Hank will have to get as down and dirty as the devils he's pursuing - and they won't be taken alive.
©2020 J. A. Johnstone (P)2020 Tantor
River of Blood
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America's most popular Western novelists continue their bold new series featuring Breckenridge Wallace, a big, strong, fierce kid fighting for a home in the towering Rocky Mountains.... He followed the call of the wild. Killers followed him. Breck Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee, he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines, he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such men in his past - and they both send cold-blooded killers for hire after him. Now, the young frontiersman must fight a whole new kind of enemy - armed with his courage, strength, and raw skills with knife and gun....
©2015 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
The Stalking Death
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Descended from Scottish Highlanders and blood kin to Falcon and Jamie Ian, Duff MacCallister forged a bold new life on the American frontier. But he will always stay true to his clan's fighting spirit - when it comes to justice.... There's something rotten in Wyoming, and it's not just the smell of cow pies - the first whiff is coming off the Laramie County Cattlemen. Right off the bat, Duff notices something odd: no small-time ranchers allowed. It's big leaguers only. And none are bigger than Brad Houser, owner of the sprawling Twin Peaks ranch. He's up in arms over the small-timers claiming the unbranded mavericks who escape their herds. Which is perfectly legal. No brand, free cow. Houser has a plan to stop these former cowboys from taking their runaways. For $1,000, Houser will make the small ranchers go away - six feet under. That makes Duff MacCallister madder than a wet hen...and his guns will do the screaming.
©2018 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
Bloodshed of the Mountain Man
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Where there's fire, there's smoke. Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and rescues them from the jaws of death. When the bloody onslaught is over, dead bodies litter the streets, and Smoke Jensen is a man on a mission. Calling themselves the Ghost Riders, a savage gang of outlaws has stealthily moved in from Wyoming Territory. Smoke now has a personal motive for going up against the Ghost Riders. No matter how many they are, no matter how many guns they have, he'll hunt them down - one killer at a time....
©2015 J.A. Johnstone (P)2015 Recorded Books
The Trail West
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In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way north to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper. But fate has other plans. It starts with a family slaughtered by Apaches, a dog smarter than most humans Dooley knows, and a girl with a wounded soul. And the blood-hungry brothers of the outlaw Dooley killed will not give up their pursuit until they've avenged his death. The farther Dooley tries to head north, destiny pushes him west. His trail is populated by strange friends and dangerous enemies, strewn with bad luck and bad blood - and frequently interrupted by sudden storms of gunfire.
©2013 William W. Johnstone (P)2020 Tantor
Ten Guns from Texas
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The Greatest Western Writer of the 21st Century The MacCallister family is legendary on the American frontier. And wherever a MacCallister travels, the legend - and the guns - follow. Fight Like the Devil When Duff MacCallister journeys to Texas to deliver 100 head of Angus cattle, he finds a land on fire. Unruly, lawless teams of fence cutters, branded Blue Devils by the locals, are rampaging across grazing land and cutting fences in the name of an Eastern land company. The ranchers are fighting back, and Duff joins the fray. But the fight leads to Austin and into an even deadlier mission. The governor's daughter has been kidnapped by Blue Devils. Duff and his partner, Elmer, are willing to go after her, but they're going to need more men and a lot more firepower. The best the governor can do is three outlaws who once served honorably in war. Now Duff MacCallister is going up against a fanatical, highly trained enemy, riding with gunmen he cannot fully trust. Once the shooting starts, there is no turning back - because Duff and his posse are heading straight into the bloody depths of hell.
©2016 J. A. Johnstone (P)2016 Recorded Books
Day of Reckoning
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The legendary MacCallister clan brought 500 years of Highlander tradition, honor, and fighting courage to the American frontier. In an astounding new novel from the nationally best-selling Johnstones, Duff MacCallister rides into the Colorado mountains with a young girl at his side - and a gang of stone-cold killers eagerly waiting for them.... When Duff MacCallister sees smoke rising from his neighbor's ranch, he knows something is very wrong. But he isn't prepared for what he finds: smoldering buildings, a rancher and his wife brutally slaughtered, and a 14-year-old survivor who could not save her parents. Now, Duff is going after the killers - and his only companion is the headstrong girl who refuses to be left behind. Duff and his new companion head into the towering Gore Range. Up ahead are two convicted murderers who were about to be hung in Cheyenne and the killers who broke them loose. Duff doesn't have a plan - or a prayer. But the girl will be more help than he can know, and when the day of reckoning comes, bullets and blood will prove who is the bravest and fiercest fighter of all....
©2017 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
The Jackals
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Alone, these justice fighters are dangerous enough. Together they're a wild bunch known as the Jackals. Now, nationally best-selling authors William W. and J. A. Johnstone are turning them loose.... With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way station - along with a hot-as-a-pistol female bound for the gallows, a spiteful newspaper editor, and a coward with $50,000 who promises them five grand if they'll deliver his blood-soaked stash to his wife. Turns out, Indians might be the least of the problems for the trio, soon to be known as the Jackals. The loot's stolen property of the vengeful Hawkin gang, and these prairie rats are merciless, stone-cold killers. And the brother of the man the woman killed wants to butcher her himself rather than watch her swing. McCulloch, Keegan, and Breen are ready for a showdown - but the Jackals may not live to spend that $5,000.
©2019 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
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Arizona Ambush [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the half breed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the half breed and the white man who rode together — and when the situation demands, kill together. In Arizona Territory, you can't keep trouble from coming, but when it does, you don't have to offer it a chair. And trouble always comes. When Matt and Sam are ambushed by a violent gang led by the scurrilous Zack Jardine, who has his own reasons for wanting the blood brothers dead, Matt is badly wounded. After leaving Matt in a Navajo village to get patched up, Sam rides off hot on the trail of the Jardine Gang. Sam finds the cutthroats selling guns to the Indians, a move that will likely explode into an all-out tribal war. Outnumbered and outgunned, the blood brothers aim to settle Zack Jardine's hash once and for all — with a little luck, a lot of bullets and the courage to shoot true. Performed by Richard Rohan, James Lewis, Dylan Lynch, Karen Novack, Christopher Graybill, Bradley Smith, James Keegan, Alexander Strain, Larissa Gallagher, Daniel Sonntag, Gregory Gorton, Danny Gavigan, Steven Carpenter, Scott McCormick, Joseph Thornhill, MB Van Dorn, Patrick Bussink, Joe Brack, Michael John Casey, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard.
©2011 William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
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The Brothers O'Brien [Dramatized Adaptation]
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The saga begins.... The war between the States has ended. Now, driven from Texas by carpetbaggers, former CSA Colonel Shamus O'Brien sets off for a new frontier - New Mexico. Here, where land is cheap, bandits shoot to kill, and rustlers rule the night, it takes more than one man to run a ranch. So he offers a partnership to his eldest son, Jacob, with equal shares going to his sons Sam, Patrick, and Shawn. Together, the brother's O'Brien will defend their homestead, the Dromore, in this violent, lawless land...and when necessary, administer their own brand of frontier justice. Performed by Mort Shelby, Michael Glenn, Bradley Smith, Christopher Graybill, Michael John Casey, Tim Getman, Nora Achrati, Thomas Keegan, Colleen Delany, Richard Rohan, Eric Messner, Tim Pabon, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Danny Gavigan, David Harris, Ken Jackson, Evan Casey, Anastasia Wilson, Matthew Bassett, Steven Carpenter, Tim Carlin, Ren Kasey, Casie Platt, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Nick DePinto, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard, Patrick Stratton, Nathanial Perry.
©2012 William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Pitchfork Pass [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Flintlock takes no pleasure in killing. But when his pal O’Hara gets bullwhipped by a trio of lowdown prairie rats, Flintlock finds sanctuary for his wounded friend at the cabin of a kindly miner and his lovely daughter. Flintlock heads out to hunt down some food. But there’s more than just deer lurking in these woods. A bloodthirsty band of eight savage raiders — led by a half-mad gunslinger called The Old Man of the Mountain — wage a full-scale attack on the miner’s cabin. By the time Flintlock returns, O’Hara’s been beaten, the miner’s been shot, and the daughter’s been kidnapped.... It gets worse. The Old Man plans to make the young beauty his bride. But Flintlock has a plan, too. It’s not just a rescue mission. It’s a vengeance ride — leading to one bloody showdown that’ll go down in history.... Performed by Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Michael Glenn, Tracy Olivera, Tim Getman, Nanette Savard, Scott McCormick, Tia Shearer, Dylan Lynch, Todd Scofield, Bradley Smith, Chris Genebach, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Matthew Bassett, Christopher Walker, Andy Clemence, Nick DePinto, Thomas Keegan, Eric Messner, Evan Casey, Tony Nam, Drew Kopas, Tim Carlin, David Jourdan, Jacob Yeh, Jeff Allin, Steve Wannall, Richard Rohan, Chris Stinson, Ken Jackson.
©2018 J.A. Johnstone (P)2019 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Support Your Local Deputy [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before breakfast. Cotton Pickens got where he is by virtue of a quick draw and slow wit. He knows the difference between lawbreakers you have to lock up...and the kind you might as well just let go. Deputy Rusty Irons, though, ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. Someone kidnapped Rusty's mail order brides. They were probably doing Irons a favor, but a deputy in love is blind. As for the carny barkers, medicine show con artists, and revival-meeting fly-by-nighters who pass through Doubtful...Cotton just tries to keep the traveling hucksters moving. But in one terrible moment, it all goes to hell. That's when Doubtful explodes in a frenzy of killing and bloodshed. That's when a lawman like Cotton earns his pay by looking evil straight in the eye. Of course, there's also the matter of keeping his new deputy alive and in one piece. Performed by Ken Jackson, David Coyne, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Elisabeth Demery, Terence Aselford, Evan Casey, Ren Casey, Michael John Casey, Jeff Allin, Eric Messner, Patrick Bussink, Tim Pabon, Alyssa Wilmoth, Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, Dylan Lynch, Daniel Sonntag, Matthew Basset, Nora Achrati, James Konicek, David Jourdan, Mort Shelby, Christopher Graybill, James Keegan, Gregory Gorton.
©2013 William W. Johnstone (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Savage Guns [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Cotton Pickens made it through fifth grade. That and a tin star were good enough to make him the sheriff in the boomtown of Doubtful, Wyoming. And Doubtful's name is no accident. The saying around town is, "If you're a lawman, it's doubtful you'll last a day." Spoiled, brash King Bragg is going to hang for the murder of three men in a barroom. But King's arrogant father - and his beautiful sister - use their powers of persuasion to convince Cotton to look into the shooting. And when Cotton does, he uncovers some disturbing secrets about one Crayfish Ruble, the second biggest rancher in Puma County. Soon, Cotton is surrounded by some people who want to hang King now, some who want to bust him free, and some too busy keeping their stories straight.... In a town full of fools and sinners, of men bad and downright evil, a gallows is going up and time is running out. And a young, skinny, undereducated lawman named Cotton Pickens is standing up to a savage storm - with only one gun on his side.... Performed by Ken Jackson, Mort Shelby, Dylan Lynch, Daniel Sonntag, Alyssa Wilmoth, David Harris, Bradley Smith, David Coyne, Catherine Aselford, James Keegan, Gary Telles, Lily Beacon, Tim Carlin, Patrick Bussink, Michael John Casey, Tim Pabon, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Richard Rohan, Johann Dettweiler, Terence Aselford, James Konicek, Nanette Savard.
©2010 William W. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
Every Mother's Son
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Three men of honor. One impossible mission. No turning back. The Jackals ride again - in the Johnstones' gunblazing chronicle of the wild and lawless West.... In Texas's Big Bend country, every man has a price. For crime lord Harry Holland and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, that price is $20,000 - a ransom demand for the kidnapped daughter of a retired Army colonel. So far, neither the Army, the Rangers, nor bounty hunters have been able to penetrate Holland's guarded fortress. In desperation, the colonel turns to the Jackals. As a longtime friend, retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan is determined to bring the man's daughter back alive - with or without the ransom money - but first he needs to convince his partners, former Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch and bounty hunter Jed Breen. This is no ordinary job. There's a very good chance it's suicide.... When word gets out that the Jackals are on the case, all hell breaks loose. They're up against trigger-happy mercenaries, marauding Apaches, and one final, jaw-dropping surprise - a kidnapping victim who doesn't want to be rescued. This time, the Jackals have no one to save...but themselves.
©2021 J.A. Johnstone (P)2021 Tantor
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Hard Country [Dramatized Adaptation]
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It's hard country, but the pioneers of Fury (Population 112) are banding together to make it a home. With barren lands, blinding dust storms, drought, hostile Indians and violent bands of cutthroat outlaws against them, death is never far away. It's enough to make Jason Fury, whose father the town was named after, ride out for San Francisco. But a fiery young redhead named Megan McDonald keeps him Arizona bound - and just in time. When another Indian attack finds the marshal's badge pinned to Jason's unwilling chest, he turns out to be the right man to do whatever it takes. Performed by Richard Rohan, Danny Gavigan, Michael Glenn, David Coyne, Steven Carpenter, James Konicek, Terence Aselford, Casie Platt, Jeff Allin, Dylan Lynch, Andy Clemence, Christopher Graybill, Gary Telles, Sherri Simpson, Sunny Lasskey, Nanette Savard, Thomas Penny, Scott Mccormick, Eric Messner, Ren Kasey, Mort Shelby, Johann Dettweiler, Ken Jackson, Christopher Scheeren, MB Van Dorn.
©2007 William W. Johnstone (P)2010 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Massacre Mountain [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Cotton Pickens is feeling about as low as a man can get. Held up, robbed, and fired from his job as sheriff, things get even worse when someone murders Cotton's horse Critter. And it's all happening just as a flashy, fleshy stage company comes to town. Some folks demand the show be shut down for immorality. Some folks - Cotton included - sure enjoy the proceedings. But when a man gets stabbed to death, a bank safe gets blown up, and another county's sheriff starts imposing his will, Cotton realizes that a dastardly plot is taking over Doubtful. Badge or no badge, Cotton is going to war. To catch a killer. To stand up to some self-righteous fatheads. And for the right to see a little bare-naked leg - or die trying.... Performed by Ken Jackson, David Coyne, Steven Carpenter, Faith Potts, Richard Rohan, Jeff Allin, Bradley Smith, Mort Shelby, Christopher Graybill, Tim Pabon, Karen Carbone, Gregory Gorton, David Harris, James Konicek, Dylan Lynch, Terence Aselford, Nanette Savard, Tim Carlin, Patrick Bussink, Nick DePinto, Michael John Casey, Gary Telles, Colleen Delany, Johann Dettweiler.
©2011 William W. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Flintlock [Dramatized Adaptation]
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He is brave, tough as leather, and has left behind a trail of deadly enemies - outlaws he's hunted down or killed with the cold heart of a man used to violence. A feared bounty hunter and the scourge of bad men everywhere, Flintlock carries an ancient Hawken muzzle-loader, handed down to him from the mountain man who raised him. He stands as the towering hero of a new Johnstone saga. Busted out of prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a fortune - a golden bell hanging in a remote monastery. But between the smoldering ruin of his former jail cell and a treasure in the Arizona mountains there will be blood at a US Army fort, a horrifying brush with Apache warriors, and a dozen bloody showdowns with the schemers, shootists, madmen, and lost women who find their way to Flintlock's side. From a vicious, superstitious half-breed to the great Geronimo himself, Flintlock meets the frontier's most murderous hardcases - many who he must find a way to kill.... Performed by Dylan Lynch, Michael John Casey, Bradley Smith, David Coyne, Richard Rohan, Tony Nam, Mark Halpern, Christopher Graybill, Ken Jackson, Terence Aselford, Steven Carpenter, Mort Shelby, Elizabeth Jernigan, Tim Getman, Colleen Delany, Eric Messner, David Jourdan, Scott McCormick, Nora Achrati, Gary Telles, Ren Kasey, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Lily Beacon, Nanette Savard.
©2013 J.A. Johnstone (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC
Winchester 1886
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The greatest western writer of the 21st century from America's most popular, best-selling Western writer, each novel in this brilliant new series follows the trail of a different gun - each gun with its own fiery story to tell. On the American frontier, every gun tells a story. A boy in Texas waits for a Christmas present he chose from a Montgomery Ward catalog. The present, a brand new, lever action Winchester 1886 and a box of its big .50-caliber slugs, never makes it there. Instead, the rifle is caught up in a train robbery and starts a long and violent journey of its own - from the hands of a notorious, kill-crazy outlaw to an Apache renegade to a hardscrabble rancher and beyond. But while the prized Winchester is wandering the West - aimed, fired, battered, and bartered - Deputy US Marshal Jimmy Mann is hunting for the outlaw who robbed the train in Texas. The only clue he has is this prized and highly coveted weapon. What stands in his way are storms, Indians, thieves, a lot of bloody deaths - and a merciless desperado just waiting to kill the lawman on his trail....
©2015 J.A. Johnstone (P)2017 Recorded Books