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.
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Gut-Shot [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
They called him Flintlock. A bounty hunter with an ancient Hawken muzzle loader and his own way of doing business on the frontier. A loner who has brought down the most vicious killers in the West, Flintlock is a towering, daring hero in William and J. A. Johnstone's electrifying new saga. Sam'l Flintlock has been hired to protect an innocent man who narrowly escaped the noose but everyone still seems to want dead. The murder of a school teacher sets in motion a battle to the death that pits Flintlock against the hidden man who pulls the strings in the town of Open Sky. But first Flintlock must find out who that man is, what he wants and why. As people start dying, the pieces start to fall together and Flintlock knows that for every evil deed there must be a reckoning....and Flintlock is that reckoning. Performed by Dylan Lynch, Michael John Casey, Terence Aselford, Matthew Schleigh, Scott Graham, David Coyne, Michael Glenn, Andy Clemence, James Konicek, Eric Messner, Thomas Keegan, David Jourdan, Evan Casey, Matthew Bassett, Tim Getman, Christopher Graybill, Laura C Harris, Gary Telles, Richard Rohan, David Harris, Ken Jackson, Colleen Delany, Jonathon Church, Tim Carlin, Sunny Lasskey, Nick DePinto, Nora Achrati, Dawn Ursula, Scott McCormick.
©2014 J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Graphic Audio, LLC
Winchester 1887
Summary
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)2015 Recorded Books
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Deadly Road to Yuma [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
A madman and a killer, Preacher Joshua Shade is on a long journey to Yuma Prison and a date with the hangman. But Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves doubt that Shade will ever keep that date. The outlaw has a legion of fanatical, bloodthirsty followers. Matt and Sam are shadowing Shade's convoy — just in case... When the time comes, Shade is sprung, a beautiful young woman is taken with him, and it's up to Matt and Sam to hunt them to a heavily guarded hideout. But they don't know that the case of Joshua Shade reaches into the highest level of the federal government.... Performed by Thomas Penny, Dylan Lynch, James Lewis, David Coyne, Terence Aselford, Tim Getman, Casie Platt, Tom Simpson, Ken Jackson, Mort Shelby, Chris Rohan, Bryan Patton, Jonathan Watkins.
©2009 William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (P)2009 Graphic Audio, LLC
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The Violent Land [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
William W, Johnstone’s legendary mountain men have fought their battles and conquered a fierce frontier. Now, three generations of the Jensen clan are trying to live in peace on their sprawling Colorado ranch. But for men with fighting in their blood, trouble is never very far from their doorstep.... They are strangers in a strange land — a band of German immigrants trespassing across the Jensen family spread. Led by a baron fleeing a dark past in Germany and accompanied by a woman beautiful enough to dazzle young Matt, the pilgrims are being pursued by a pack of brutal outlaws hungry for blood, money — or maybe something else.... The Jensens are willing to help the pioneers get to the promised land in Wyoming. But they don’t know the whole story of their newfound friends, or who the outlaws really are. By the time the wagon train reaches Wyoming, the truth is ready to explode — in a clash of hard fighting, hard choices, and hard deaths in a violent land.... Performed by Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Thomas Penny, Thomas Keegan, Elizabeth Jernigan, Tim Carlin, Tim Getman, Drew Kopas, David Coyne, Terence Aselford, Nora Achrati, Nick DePinto, Eric Messner, Steven Carpenter, Evan Casey, David Harris, Colleen Delany, Michael John Casey, Danny Gavigan, Richard Rohan, Ken Jackson, Christopher Graybill.
©2012 William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Preacher's Fury [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. A beautiful woman named Raven’s Wing makes the sheltering even better — once he gets things straight with a jealous brave who wants to lift Preacher’s scalp. Across the border is another wanderer and another tribe. Preacher’s old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with the deadliest combination possible: whisky, guns, and bullets — then directs them to try out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of devastating death, bloodshed, and helpless captives. Deaver is all the more delighted when he learns Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving, drifting snow, with a handful of bloodied survivors by his side, Preacher is rising: a rifle in his hands, red-hot fury in his heart, and icy vengeance in his gun sight.... Performed by Mort Shelby, Terence Aselford, Ken Jackson, David Coyne, Elizabeth Jernigan, Thomas Keegan, Gregory Gorton, James Lewis, Steven Carpenter, Bradley Smith, Richard Rohan, Joe Brack, Christopher Graybill, Nanette Savard.
©2012 J.A. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
A Colorado Christmas
Summary
At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays - unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. On a mission of vengeance, an old trapper is rescued by Ace and Chance Jensen from ruthless outlaws - and wanted by a driven bounty hunter named Luke Jensen. And, just released from prison, a criminal mastermind assembles a vicious gang of cutthroats to extract his final revenge against his enemy - the sheriff of Big Rock, Colorado. With a snowstorm brewing, a community in jeopardy, and a showdown ready to explode, these courageous pioneers are brought together by fate and fury to forge peace on earth. But they're going to have to fight for it. With guns. With grit. With glory. Because this Christmas, the greatest gift of all is staying alive.
©2016 J.A. Johnstone (P)2016 Recorded Books
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The Blood of Renegades [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning. On his way across the wide, tall Utah territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding - and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down. But there are two sides to every story - and the ones you don't hear are the ones that can get you killed. The runaway bride has a little history of her own. Soon, the Loner touches off a storm of unholy gunfire, drawing blood from an outlaw and a death sentence from a patriarch. Among murderers and Mormons, Bibles and bullets, the Loner finds himself riding to a wedding - a ceremony he intends to crash with a vengeance. Performed by Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Michael Glenn, Christopher Scheeren, Elizabeth Jernigan, Steven Carpenter, David Coyne, Christopher Graybill, Patrick Bussink, Anastasia Wilson, James Lewis, Michael John Casey, Jeff Allin, Joe Brack, Bradley Smith, Ken Jackson, Evan Casey, Gregory Gorton, Mort Shelby.
©2011 J. A. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Kill or Die [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
One man. One rifle. One way to take on the most vicious outlaws on the frontier.... In the acclaimed new series by William and J.A. Johnstone, the bounty hunter known as Flintlock brings his trusty muzzleloader and a motherlode of courage into the most bitter and vicious battle he’s ever had to fight. Brewster Ritter had a warning for Flintlock: Do not cross the Sabine River. Ritter, the so-called Baron of the Bayou, is a vicious crime king still seething because Flintlock killed one of his gunmen in a Texas dustup. But Flintlock has his own powerful reasons for crossing into the nightmarish swamp country from East Texas. Now in an eerie land of mysterious mists, haunting cypress trees, snakes, gators, and black-hearted, trigger-happy war hogs, Ritter is waiting for Flintlock with enough men and guns to kill him 10 times over. Flintlock knows what he’s getting into, though, and losing is not an option. Because what’s at stake is not just lives, or Ritter’s criminal kingdom, but the future of a the very soul and survival of this land. Performed by Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Michael Glenn, Tia Shearer, Chris Genebach, Scott McCormick, David Jourdan, Evan Casey, Gary Telles, Eric Messner, Richard Rohan, Paul Reisman, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Christopher Graybill, J W Rone, Tim Carlin, Andy Clemence, Lily Beacon, James Konicek, Tim Getman, Christopher Walker, Ken Jackson, Elizabeth Jernigan, Jacob Yeh, Bradley Smith, Colleen Delany, James Lewis, Patrick Bussink, Yasmin Tuazon, Nick DePinto, Drew Kopas, Steve Wannall, Thomas Keegan, Amanda Forstrom, Matthew Keenan, Nanette Savard, Chris Stinson.
©2015 J.A. Johnstone (P)2017 Graphic Audio, LLC
A Rocky Mountain Christmas
Summary
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone built a reputation for crafting unmatched stories of true Western courage - a tradition J. A. Johnstone now continues. In A Rocky Mountain Christmas, Matt Jensen’s scenic trip on the Denver railway is derailed when an avalanche strikes the train. Far from an accident, its cause is a reckless band of outlaws out to free their leader. Surrounded and outgunned in a driving snowstorm, Matt must lead to safety a ragtag group of survivors that includes a senator’s sick daughter and a beautiful woman with a dark past.
©2012 William W. Johnstone (P)2013 Recorded Books
A High Sierra Christmas
Summary
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to a gruesome, tragic end.... And so the journey begins. The Jensens share a stagecoach with a stranger who's planning to rob a bank. Smoke wants to stop him, as well as his notorious gang of outlaws. But he's outgunned and outnumbered. And when a blizzard traps them in the mountains, he's out of luck too. Like the Donner Party before them, the Jensens will be forced to do whatever it takes to survive. This time, they're hoping history doesn't repeat itself. But sometimes, the ghosts of the past just won't stay buried....
©2018 J.A. Johnstone (P)2018 Tantor
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Dead Man's Gold [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
With his wife's killers dead and buried, Conrad Morgan - known as The Loner - is on his way to Mexico for some peace and quiet. But on the way he's sidetracked by some intriguing travelers who are hunting down a valuable golden artifact. They're not the only ones who want to get a hold of the treasure. A running gun battle with some killers lands The Loner and his cohorts in the Jornada del Muerto - a hellish, waterless wasteland in New Mexico Territory. And now it's up to The Loner to get himself and his new friends out of this arid stretch of land before they perish from thirst...or lead poisoning.... Performed by Ken Jackson, Eric Messner, Kimberly Gilbert, Christopher Graybill, Chris Scheeren, Drew Kopas, Steven Carpenter, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Michael Glenn, Joe Brack, Yasmin Tuazon, James Lewis, Richard Rohan, Michael John Casey, Tim Carlin, Thomas Penny, Nanette Savard.
©2010 J.A. Johnstone (P)2011 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Town Tamer [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
A man who tamed the west - one town at a time. Unlike his brothers Jacob, Sam, and Patrick, Shawn O'Brien isn't content to settle down on the family ranch in New Mexico territory. With his razor-sharp eye, lightning-fast draw, and burning thirst for justice, Shawn is carving out a reputation of his own. As a town tamer, he takes the most dangerous, lawless towns in the West and makes them safe for decent men, women, and children. When a stagecoach accident leaves Shawn stranded in Holy Rood, Utah, it doesn't take long to realize he's landed in one ornery circle of hell. Ruled by a cruel and cunning crook-turned-merciless dictator named Hank Cobb, Holy Rood is about as unholy a place as any on the frontier. Anyone who breaks Cobb's rules is severely punished. Anyone who defies Cobb's hooded henchmen dies by rope, stake, or guillotine. But Shawn O'Brien isn't just anyone. He's the town tamer. And this time, he's going to paint the town red.... Performed by Mort Shelby, Tim Getman, Steve Wannall, Danny Gavigan, Christopher Walker, David Jourdan, David Coyne, Nora Achrati, Michael Glenn, David Harris, Kimberly Gilbert, Christopher Graybill, Dylan Lynch, Terence Aselford, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Michael John Casey, Bradley Smith, Andy Clemence, Matthew Bassett, Scott McCormick, Eric Messner, Ken Jackson, Christopher Scheeren, Yasmin Tuazon, Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, Lily Beacon, Alyssa Wilmoth, Tim Carlin.
©2014 J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Thunder of Eagles [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
Higbee, Colorado, population 147, is about to become a boomtown. The visionary General Wade Garrison is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the renowned Santa Fe Rail. But a rancher named Ike Clinton has his own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere - and he’ll go to any lengths to derail Garrison’s plans. Falcon MacCallister owes a war-time debt to the General and answers the call to aid the man in his fight with the Clinton brood. The proud little town of Higbee is about to be torn to pieces; neighbors, families, and lovers will be bitterly divided and bodies will litter the streets. And before the last gunsmoke clears, Falcon will come face to face with the Clintons’ hired gunman, an outlaw known as the fastest gun in the West: Jefferson Tyree. Falcon knows that the fastest way to the end of a tragedy is straight through the blood and tears - behind the light of a blazing gun.... Performed by Mort Shelby, David Coyne, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Nanette Savard, Ken Jackson, Colleen Delany, Christopher Graybill, Tim Carlin, Peter Stray, James Konicek, Lily Beacon, Thomas Penny, Elisabeth Demery, Michael Glenn, James Lewis, Dylan Lynch, Johann Dettweiler, Christopher Walker, Andy Clemence, Elliot Dash, Eric Messner, Michael John Casey.
©2008 William W. Johnstone (P)2008 Graphic Audio, LLC
Butchery of the Mountain Man
Summary
In Montana Territory, one name above all others strikes fear and hatred in the hearts of the Crow Indians - John Jackson, better known these days as Liver-Eating Jackson. Consumed by grief and rage, the mountain man has brutally killed 10 braves so far in his one-man war of vengeance against the Crow, who murdered his beloved wife. Smoke Jensen knows Jackson by another name - "friend." He's not sure to what extent Jackson's exploits are true - devastating loss and frontier savagery have certainly driven lesser men mad. While doing some trapping in the territory, Smoke hears that 20 of the Crow's most fearsome warriors have banded together to hunt down their nemesis. Without a second thought, he rushes to his old friend's aid. But even with Smoke Jensen at his side, the fierce and fearless Liver-Eating Jackson may not be able to beat the odds this time.
©2013 J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Recorded Books
Flintlock: Gut-Shot
Summary
Drawn to a killing ground... Ten thousand dollars. That's the bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas - the man Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young schoolteacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock believe in this man's innocence? Call it a gut instinct. Or maybe call it just a hankering for a fight. Because Flintlock knows that some very powerful and dangerous people are trying to make a man look guilty as sin. The only way for Flintlock to get the truth now is to go gunning for it - on a bad man's blood-soaked killing ground....
©2014 J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Recorded Books
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Killer Poker [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own - to take this city slicker into the wilderness, and hunt him like an animal. But Rance McKinney doesn't know who he is facing. The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad goes by the moniker of the Loner. Now it's the Loner against McKinney, the hunter and the hunted. And when he's cornered, the Loner is the most dangerous beast of all.... Performed by Ken Jackson, Eric Messner, Michael Glenn, Yasmin Tuazon, Tim Getman, Gary Telles, Jeff Allin, Karen Novak, Thomas Penny, Bradley Smith, Tim Carlin, Evan Casey, Christopher Graybill, Lily Beacon, Alexander Strain, Patrick Bussink, Scott McCormick, Thomas Keegan, Nanette Savard, James Lewis, Dylan Lynch, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, James Konicek, Daniel Sonntag, Christopher Scheeren, Mort Shelby.
©2011 J. A. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC
Flintlock
Summary
The Greatest Western Writer of the 21st Century One man. One rifle. One way to take on the most vicious outlaws on the frontier.... In the acclaimed new series by William and J. A. Johnstone, the bounty hunter known as Flintlock brings his trusty muzzleloader and a motherlode of courage into the most bitter and vicious battle he's ever had to fight. Blood in the Bayou Brewster Ritter had a warning for Flintlock: Do not cross the Sabine River. Ritter, the so-called Baron of the Bayou, is a vicious crime king still seething because Flintlock killed one of his gunmen in a Texas dustup. But Flintlock has his own powerful reasons for crossing into the nightmarish swamp country from East Texas. Now, in an eerie land of mysterious mists, haunting cypress trees, snakes, gators, and black-hearted, trigger-happy war hogs, Ritter is waiting for Flintlock with enough men and guns to kill him 10 times over. Flintlock knows what he's getting into, though, and losing is not an option. Because what's at stake is not just lives or Ritter's criminal kingdom but the future of the very soul and survival of this land.
©2015 J.A. Johnstone (P)2015 Recorded Books
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Defiance of Eagles [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
Falcon MacCallister is a man who has built a legend of courage on the wild American frontier. Boyd Ackerman is no ordinary criminal. Trained by the US Army, commanding his band of killers with military efficiency, Ackerman has outsmarted and outfought every lawman who has tried to stop him. But he's never faced MacCallister before. Falcon MacCallister wasn't looking for a fight. Then Ackerman's Raiders kill his niece's husband - and take a young woman hostage. Falcon and his brothers ride into action. With three transplanted sons of the Scottish Highlands attacking an army of steely-eyed, battle-hardened killers, a small Montana town will bear witness to the bloodiest and most hellish gun battle in the history of the frontier. Performed by Mort Shelby, David Coyne, David Harris, Casie Platt, Michael Glenn, Ren Kasey, Nanette Savard, Thomas Penny, James Konicek, Michael John Casey, Thomas Keegan, Tim Getman, Eric Messner, Scott McCormick, Lily Beacon, Colleen Delany, Nick DePinto, Gregory Gorton, Evan Casey, Dylan Lynch, Joe Brack, Jeff Allin, Danny Gavigan, Bradley Smith, Katy Carkuff, Kimberly Gilbert, Christopher Graybill, James Lewis, David Jourdan, Tim Carlin, Nora Achrati, Terence Aselford, Christopher Scheeren, Richard Rohan, Ken Jackson, Steven Carpenter, Gary Telles, Justin Wortz.
©2013 William W. Johnstone (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC
A Frontier Christmas
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Three weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by a brutal crime. The mayor's family has been slaughtered in cold blood on their ranch outside of Raw Hide Butte. As the townsfolk gather to pay their last respects, Duff MacCallister saddles up to go after the killers. He returns with two outlaws - a cold-blooded, nasty pair of snakes, Jesse and T. Bob Cave. But the day before they're sentenced to hang, the Cave brothers escape their fate... Into this holiday hell-storm ride three friendly travelers. Smoke, Sally and Matt Jensen, come to spend Christmas with Duff. But a deadly diphtheria outbreak leaves the town beholden to the mercy of the Cave brothers. It's a desperate bind to be stuck in, but Duff and the Jensens will use every bullet they can find to shoot their way into a bloody but merry Christmas.
©2014 J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Recorded Books
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Snake River Slaughter [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Matt Jensen didn’t want to kill two murderers in Wyoming, but he had no choice. Now, his fame has reached into Idaho Territory, where a woman Matt knew as a child in an orphanage is being hunted by predators.... Kitty Wellington inherited her uncle’s 20,000-acre ranch — and a mortgage — on the Snake River. She plans to pay her debt by selling thoroughbreds to the US Army. But a relative is trying to steal it all…until Matt enters a fight whose most dangerous combatants have yet to show their hand. Behind one man’s evil plot is a small army of vicious killers masquerading as peace officers in Boise. For men who are used to getting their way, the odds in this fight look pretty good…until they meet Matt Jensen. Performed by Dylan Lynch, Thomas Penny, Lily Beacon, James Konicek, Danny Gavigan, Terence Aselford, Bradley Smith, Thomas Keegan, Alexander Strain, David Coyne, Gregory Gorton, Richard Rohan, Joe Brack, Anastasia Wilson, Michael John Casey, Alyssa Wilmoth, Tony Nam, Nick DePinto, Christopher Scheeren, Michael Glenn, Tim Carlin, Casie Platt, Jeff Baker.
©2010 J.A. Johnstone (P)2012 Graphic Audio, LLC