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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Watery Graves [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
Treasure for the taking Unaware of the forces marshaled against him, Captain Phinneus Shae and the crew of the Talion are headed into uncharted waters. With a doggedly determined killer from his past on his trail and cold-blooded pirates all around him, Shae’s contract to recover the treasure from a sunken ship seems destined to fail. But other, more nefarious individuals are after that same treasure, and whatever it is, it is destined to change the future of the Iron Kingdoms. Whether for good or ill all depends on who finds it first and who is buried at the bottom of the sea in the end.... Performed by Scott McCormick, Chris Genebach, Kimberly Gilbert, Amanda Forstrom, Lolita Horne, David Jourdan, Henry Kramer, Terence Aselford, Todd Scofield, Holly Vagley, Eric Messner, KenYatta Rogers, Chris Davenport, Ken Jackson, Matthew Pauli, Matthew Ward, Steven Carpenter, Matthew Schleigh, Nick DePinto, Colleen Delany, Joy Jones, Michael Glenn, Richard Rohan, Andy Clemence, Jonathon Church, Andy Brownstein, Eleanor Todd, Chris Stinson, David Zitney, Faith Potts.
©2016 Privateer Press, Inc. (P)2019 Graphic Audio, LLC
The Darkest Winter
Summary
From America's most popular Western storytellers comes another adventure in the treacherous life of Breckenridge Wallace, a man as wild as the frontier he tries to conquer. HE FOLLOWED THE CALL OF THE WILD. KILLERS FOLLOWED HIM. Exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, Breck Wallace tries to make a new home in St. Louis, even tries his hand at romance, but some men are too wild to settle down. Breck is soon back on the trail, where a vicious gang of trappers, after his goods, picks up his scent and begins to dog his every step, until Breck's only choice is to bed down for the winter with a tribe of friendly Indians. In the frigid, brutal cold of a Rocky Mountain winter, he hopes to find peace...but death is not done with Breck Wallace. When the trappers ambush the Indians and leave Breck for dead, the frontiersman must ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone before. Peace be damned. The blood will flow until vengeance is his alone....
©2017 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
Have Brides, Will Travel
Summary
Here come the brides. And the bullets... Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are lifelong drifters who keep one eye on the horizon, one finger on the trigger, and one foot out the door. Roaming the West is what keeps them young, or so Scratch tells Bo. But when they save the life of Cyrus Keegan - the owner of a matrimonial agency - they receive an unexpected proposal that's hard to resist. Keegan needs to deliver five mail order brides to a mining town in New Mexico Territory. All Scratch and Bo have to do is get these gals to the church on time - and alive, if possible... The job seems easy enough - and the brides-to-be are even easier on the eyes. Cecilia, Beth, Luella, Rose, and Jean all need good husbands. But their prospects look bad when the journey to the altar includes Mexican banditos, scheming silver robbers, and one overbearing rancher who won't take no for an answer. Bo and Scratch promised to keep the ladies safe - and keep their hands to themselves - but it could be the last vow they'll ever make...
©2019 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
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A Time to Slaughter [Dramatized Adaptation]
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New Mexico Territory is no stranger to bad men. But south of the border, on the wild Mexican coastline, is another kind of wicked: a murderous Arab with a ship full of stolen women - to be sold as sex slaves in the four corners of the world. Among them is a missing local school teacher Shawn O'Brien has been searching for - a woman with a past she's kept carefully hidden. Now Shawn, along with a half-mad bear hunter and a professional hangman fight their way to the coast for a blood-soaked battle between the slavers and the US Navy. When the action runs aground, O'Brien gets his chance: to face down an Arab sheik who profits from human misery...and makes a sport of slaughter.... Performed by Mort Shelby, Tim Getman, David Jourdan, Michael Glenn, Bradley Smith, Joe Brack, Jeff Allin, Nora Achrati, Christopher Graybill, Evan Casey, James Konicek, Alexander Strain, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Casie Platt, Tim Pabon, David Harris, Steven Carpenter, Eric Messner, Matthew McGee, Tim Carlin, Michael John Casey, Colleen Delany, Ren Kasey, David Coyne, Nick DePinto, Katy Carkuff, Nanette Savard, Matthew Bassett, Dead Giveaways.
©2013 William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Graphic Audio, LLC
Bloodthirsty
Summary
From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga - a blood-pounding tale of one man's sacred mission to bring justice to the American West the only way he knows how.... In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Yankee prison camp run by evil, sadistic General Thomas Wainwright. In the war's aftermath, a survivor of Andersonville summons Joe Buckhorn to New Orleans and asks the gunslinger to kill the general - not simply for revenge, but to stop another atrocity. Wainwright has seized control of Wagontongue, a township on the edge of the Arizona desert, and he rules it as brutally as he once did Andersonville. With an iron grip on the town's only source of water, he keeps the locals cowering under his cruel heel. Buckhorn rides on Wagontongue to overthrow the merciless despot and finds that Wainwright has plans for a bloody revolution, which Buckhorn will shoot through hell and back to stop....
©2016 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
Sidewinders
Summary
Bo Creel is back at his family's Star C Ranch in Texas. Along with Scratch, he's finding out that home is where the hell-raising is. A rival ranch is trying to drive the Creel family out of business, using any means necessary. For Bo and Scratch, always suckers for a pretty face, come two young ladies who just might blur the battle lines. Desperate to raise cash, the Creel family sets of on a trail drive south to Rockport and a thriving cattle market on the Gulf of Mexico. That's when their rivals strike a devastating blow. Now Bo and Scratch are madder than two wet hens. Assembling a ragtag army of aging, crusty cowboys who've seen their share of gun battles, Bo and Scratch need to recapture a stolen herd and make it to the Texas coast in time to save the Creel family's future - while a relentless enemy is about to unload the bloodiest mayhem to ever drench Texas.
©2014 J.A. Johnstone (P)2014 Recorded Books
Behind the Iron
Summary
In this gripping thriller, America's greatest Western storytellers take you inside the dangerous world of an undercover agent - and the deadliest jail in America.... Hank Fallon knows what it's like to rot behind bars. To wallow in the filth of a rat-infested cell. To smell the pent-up rage of cutthroat killers and thieves. Fallon earned his freedom the hard way. He saved the lives of four guards, got released early, and became a detective. Then he went undercover, infiltrated a prison gang plotting to bust out - and barely made it out alive. Now they're sending him back. Behind the iron. Straight to hell... This time, it's the ninth circle known as Missouri State Penitentiary. His mission: get inside the infirmary, look for a pregnant inmate named Jess Harper, and find out where her bank-robbing boyfriend hid the stolen cash. Problem is: a rebellion is brewing among the prisoners. Their rage is burning out of control. An all-out savage riot is about to explode. And Fallon's head is on the chopping block....
©2018 J. A. Johnstone (P)2018 Tantor
Better off Dead
Summary
On the West Texas border, a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry, whose weapons of war have spread death and destruction around the world - and made a few men in Big Buck, Texas, incredibly rich. Now, a Mexican-born teenager has disappeared into this fortress factory where men work and sweat as slaves. This boy's sister wants to learn her brother's fate, and she just happens to know a man named Shawn O'Brien, the town tamer. Shawn rides to Texas to find the missing boy. What he discovers in Big Buck will spark a ferocious, bloody battle with the greatest evil the West ever known: masters of war who laugh in the face of anyone who defies them - until Shawn O'Brien raises his six-gun. Then the laughing stops.
©2016 J. A. Johnstone (P)2016 Recorded Books
Pray for Death
Summary
Johnstone Country. Outlaws need not apply. US Marshal Will Tanner is a man of the law, not a gun for hire. Except when a friend's in danger and needs the Tanner brand of help that comes out the barrel of a gun. There's serious trouble brewing in the Choctaw nation, and it goes by the name of Tiny McCoy. This small-time cattle rustler is expanding his brand by brewing batches of whiskey in the Chocktaw territory of Muddy Boggy Creek. Tiny and his partner have also turned the illegal brewery into a robber's roost for outlaws, cutthroats, and killers of every bent. Local lawman Jim Little Eagle is under attack and out-gunned. But when he sends a wire to Fort Smith asking for backup and the US Deputy Marshal Tanner shows up, Little Eagle knows they're in for one hell of a bloodbath. If anyone can drive those murdering devils to their knees and saying their prayers, it's Will Tanner.
©2020 J. A. Johnstone (P)2020 Tantor
The Eyes of Texas
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Shady Rest, Texas, has the dubious reputation for being the deadliest town in America. Getting yourself killed is as easy as blinking and twice as quick. Sure enough, Matt Jensen hasn't swallowed his whisky before the town's marshal is gunned down.
©2013 William W. Johnstone (P)2013 Recorded Books
Monahan's Massacre
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The accidental gunslinger Dooley Monahan has quit wandering and settled down to a farmer's life. But when the itch for adventure gets too strong, he packs up and rides west. Along with his horse General Grant, and Blue, a dog who's too smart for his own good, Dooley rides for the Black Hills to strike it rich in the gold fields of Colorado. But fate has other ideas. When the trigger-happy Dobbs-Queeg gang holds up the Omaha bank, Dooley is mistaken for one of the robbers, and a price is plastered on his head. With every lawman in the territory hot on his trail, Dooley has no choice but to join up with the murderous outlaws. If the hangman doesn't get him, his new friends will, but Dooley won't turn back. With Blue and General Grant at his side, Dooley will make his fortune - come hell, high water, and everything in between.
©2017 J. A. Johnstone (P)2020 Tantor
Texas Kill of the Mountain Man
Summary
Smoke Jensen: The Mountain Man, is the most enduring of the Johnstones' series and their most beloved character, known to set the standard for Western adventure. In this brand new installment, Smoke Jensen's epic battle for justice in the heart of the American Frontier takes him deep into the heart of Texas, where justice comes from the barrel of a gun.... Welcome to Texas. Now go home. Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it's personal and it's bloody - and going to get bloodier. First, they stole 50 of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Jim Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole 2,000 cattle from Big Jim...and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they're going to pay.... The leader of this unholy band of devils is Delbert Catron - but everyone calls him The Professor. Whatever he's called, he leads the most ruthless gang of vicious kill-crazy desperadoes this side of the border. Hell-bent on avenging his friend's murder, nothing will stop Smoke Jensen from hunting down these killers. And celebrating justice...
©2020 William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone (P)2020 Recorded Books, Inc.
Paid in Blood
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From the best-selling chroniclers of the American West comes a riveting new chapter in the epic Buckhorn saga - the legendary adventures of a young gun-for-hire with Indian blood, a lightning-fast trigger, and his own special brand of justice.... When a wealthy cattle baroness hires Joe Buckhorn to track down her son, it sounds like easy money. But when he learns that the boy has run off with a girl - whose father is the leader of the cattle-rustling Riley clan - Buckhorn's only hope is to infiltrate the gang. Gain their trust. Live the outlaw life, even at the risk of death. There's just one problem: there's more than one gang. The Riley girl may have stolen a runaway boy's heart but the other gangs are stealing the baroness's cattle. Which puts Buckhorn in the middle of a violent, bloodsoaked range war. If he chooses the wrong side, he's as good as dead...but if he follows his gut and lives, there's going to be the darkest kind of hell to pay.
©2016 J. A. Johnstone (P)2018 Tantor
Bullet for a Stranger
Summary
Red Ryan is one of the fastest guns in the West. But this time, he's in for the longest, hardest ride of his life. Where danger lurks around every turn - and all roads lead to hell.... 700 Miles of Mayhem Gold. Silver. Cold hard cash. Stagecoach guard Red Ryan and his driver Buttons Muldoon have ridden shotgun on some pretty valuable cargo in their day. But they're about to learn - the hard way - that the most dangerous cargo of all is human. They've been hired to escort a cowardly traitor facing an army court martial in New Orleans. Every hired killer in Texas wants him dead, including gun-handy Hannah Huckabee, a woman with a mysterious past and an agenda of her own. But she's just one of the dangers they'll face along the way. There are cutthroat gangs bent on slaughtering anything on two legs. And 700 miles of the deadliest terrain Red Ryan has ever had to shoot his way out of....
©2020 J. A. Johnstone (P)2020 Tantor
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The Stampeders [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
A Yankee and an outlaw have become unlikely partners in a tough Texas town. Sam Heller and Johnny Cross face a stampede of danger - ignited by one pretty little woman.... When a lovely lady steps off a dusty stagecoach in Hangtree, the hardest heart skips a beat - and Sam Heller falls hard for her. What Hangtree doesn't know, however, is that Julia Pepperday isn't who she pretends to be. She is the daughter of the late Black Ear Skinner, a notorious outlaw who wanted his only child to have all the advantages in life and sent her back east. Black Ear Skinner's apple hasn't fallen far from the tree, though. Julia has turned her back on the fancy boarding school and set her sights on Hangtree, because that's where Sam Heller has built a hard-earned fortune. Backed by her late father's gang, Julia is out to separate Sam from his money and destroy Hangtree in the process. But while Sam and Hangtree have lost their heads, Johnny Cross has kept his - and he's getting ready for war.... Performed by Terence Aselford, Laura Harris, Danny Gavigan, Scott McCormick, David Coyne, Evan Casey, Regen Wilson, Tim Getman, Barbara Pinolini, Bradley Smith, Matthew Bassett, Thomas Keegan, Michael Glenn, Eric Messner, Jonathan Watkins, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Lily Beacon, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard, David Jourdan.
©2013 J. A. Johnstone (P)2013 Graphic Audio, LLC
Preacher's Frenzy
Summary
Johnstone country. Where the good die young. And the bad die sooner. There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into - a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So, he sets off after the grifters - on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal underworld of the French Quarter. Then, he’s enslaved on a pirate ship heading straight to hell. Now, there’s only one way out for Preacher. Start a mutiny. Take over the ship. Then return to New Orleans to reunite Charlie with his money - and not to get butchered in the process.
©2019 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Recorded Books