William Johnstone has 19 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is The Violent Land.
The Violent Land
Summary
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…
©2012 William W. Johnstone (P)2012 Recorded Books
Helltown Massacre
Summary
One of the best-selling Western writers of all time, William W. Johnstone established three of the genre’s most enduring characters in Matt and Smoke Jensen and their stalwart friend Preacher. In Helltown Massacre, the family Jensen lands squarely in the crosshairs of a railroad tycoon trying to run the iron horse through Paiute territory. To protect the land, three honest men will face half a hundred hired guns—impossible odds, unless you’re a Jensen.
©2011 William W. Johnstone (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
Killing Ground
Summary
In Killing Ground, legendary gunslinger Frank Morgan is content as marshal of his Nevada hometown. Trouble rides in, however, when Dex Brighton shows up with an authentic-looking claim to the local silver mine. Suspicious of this stranger, Frank sends for some legal eagles. But after they’re gunned down, Frank realizes the looming standoff must be settled by the law of hot lead.
©2008 Willaim W. Johnstone (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Winter Kill: The Last Gunfighter
Summary
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone’s tales straight out of the Old West consistently produce hit after hit. A dynamic entry in his Last Gunfighter series, Winter Kill follows Frank Morgan as he agrees to escort a group of ladies northwest into the wilds of Alaska. But the deadly winter and harsh, unfamiliar terrain plague their journey northward.
©2010 William W. Johnstone (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
Devil's Legion
Summary
William Johnstone has over a million copies of his popular Westerns in print. Rolling into the small town of San Remo, Frank Morgan and his faithful companion Dog bear witness to a violent range war. Frank gets drawn in deeper when he’s recruited by one side against the other. Weary from a life of settling scores with pistols, Morgan sides with the townsfolk and reluctantly accepts their marshal’s badge in the hopes of ending the bloodshed.
©1981 Anne Perry (P)2001 Recorded Books, LLC
Rampage of the Mountain Man
Summary
Authors of over 200 books combined, William W. and J.A. Johnstone write action-packed tales of Western life. In Rampage of the Mountain Man, a job offer to deliver 3,000 head of cattle sounds like just the payday Smoke Jensen needs. But when an angry Cheyenne warrior attacks him and his comrades, Smoke discovers that he's not the only one looking to cash in.
©2007 William Johnstone (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Savagery of the Mountain Man
Summary
Best-selling author William W. Johnstone has penned more than 200 novels, and is especially loved for his Westerns. Smoke Jensen travels from his peaceful Sugarloaf Ranch to Santa Clara, Colorado, where he wins an auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. But this makes Pogue Quentin, the town’s leading citizen and a man accustomed to bloodshed, furious. When Smoke’s friend has a run-in with Quentin, things get pretty dicey.
©2009 William W. Johnstone (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Shootout of the Mountain Man
Summary
The tales of the Mountain Man represent the best of the Western genre in all its thundering glory—and few gunfighters are as compelling, or as deadly, as Smoke Jensen. In Shootout of the Mountain Man, Billy Ray Cabot is set to hang, but the people planning to string him up haven’t reckoned on his old association with Smoke Jensen. As loyal as the trees are tall, Smoke will move Heaven and Earth to save a friend—even if it means riding into a bloody war that’s sure to mean the death of more than one man.
©2010 William W. Johnstone (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
Dead Before Sundown
Summary
USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone is a legend in the Western genre. In this 22nd Last Gunfighter novel, Frank Morgan and a handful of survivors are stranded in Western Canada. An old enemy of Frank’s has resurfaced, and with him a band of murderous Metis rebels armed with stolen U.S. Army Gatling guns. Now Frank and his ragtag bunch are the only thing standing between this dangerous foe and a bloodbath.
©2011 William W. Johnstone (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC
Deadly Trail
Summary
The Mountain Man series established William W. Johnstone as one of the most heralded writers ever to pen tales of the Old West. Following in the footsteps of his adoptive father Smoke, Matt Jensen has big boots to fill. Matt's never been one to shy away from a confrontation, and he's got a fire burning in his belly that's leading him straight toward a deadly showdown in the town of Braggadocio.
©2008 William Johnstone (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC.
Hell Town
Summary
A perennial fixture of the USA Today best-seller list, Western author William W. Johnstone takes listeners back to the days of cowboys, outlaws, and hot lead. Thanks to a lucrative vein of silver, Buckskin, Nevada, has become a boomtown. As greedy, scheming forces converge on Buckskin, lawman Frank Morgan stands strong as the town's lone defense.
©2007 William W. Johnstone (P)2008 Recorded Books
Slaughter: The Last Gunfighter
Summary
The towering Last Gunfighter series continues with Slaughter. In the lawless West, Frank Morgan is the type of man you want on your side in a fight. But when he ventures into town, trouble always seems to find him. And now, treachery abounds as oil drillers encroach on local ranches, and violence erupts at every turn.
©2009 William W. Johnstone (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Avenger
Summary
A price has been placed on the head of gunfighter Frank Morgan, leaving him only one course of action - kill the man who put it there. Vengefully trekking across the frontier, he survives ambush after ambush, each drawing him closer to a hellish ghost town shootout. William W. Johnstone's epic, USA Today-best-selling Western novels bristle with blazing gunfire and thrilling suspense.
©2007 William Johnstone (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC
The Last Mountain Man
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USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone is one of the most prolific writers of the past 50 years, with nearly 200 thrilling books to his credit. Matt Jensen, reared by legendary mountain hero Smoke, is the last of a proud breed. He will soon learn that dispensing justice with a gun is the only true way to execute righteous revenge in the Old West.
©2007 William W. Johnstone (P)2007 Recorded Books
Renegades
Summary
Popular chronicler of the American West William W. Johnstone returns with a stirring tale of legendary shootist Frank Morgan. With his Winchester blazing, Morgan races to rescue Cecil and Ben Tolliver from 20 thundering banditos. When his rifle runs dry, Morgan draws his trusty Colt and drops enough desperados to scatter the rest. Does Don Felipe Almanzar lead these marauding vaqueros, as rancher Tolliver believes? Or do they follow the terrifying Black Scorpion?
©2005 William Johnstone (P)2006 Recorded Books
Sudden Fury
Summary
Entries in the Last Gunfighter series blast their way up best-seller lists and win new fans with each riveting adventure. In Sudden Fury, something monstrous is terrorizing loggers in the Redwoods. So when a timber baron puts a bounty on its head, all manner of miscreants come out of the woodwork, guns blazing, to score a quick buck. But Frank Morgan doesn’t cotton to local superstition or misfiring buffoons—and he means to find out just what the Sam Hill is going on.
©2009 William W. Johnstone (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
Violence of the Mountain Man
Summary
USA Today best-selling authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone capture the sordid underbelly of the Wild West with this gritty tale. Smoke Jensen believes he's seen every dirty trick a man could ever pull - and then his wife and his neighbor's daughter are abducted by a ruthless band of outlaws. But when the ransom demands come in, Smoke can only see one thing clearly through his blinding rage - any payment he forks over will be in the form of hot lead.
©2008 William W. Johnstone (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Ambush Valley
Summary
In this epic Western by USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone, the distinction between lawman and outlaw gets hazy once the gun smoke thickens. Frank Morgan, legendary gunslinger turned town marshal, has disguised himself as an inmate at Yuma Prison - hoping to root out a bank-robbing plot. But even the straightest arrow can bend when shot into a corrupt hellhole like Yuma.
©2008 William W. Johnstone (P)2008 Recorded Books,LLC
Strike of the Mountain Man
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Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk - from way back East. What is he doing out here? The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir, just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron is circling the Humbolt ranch like a ravenous vulture. Poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Smoke is the not the pitying kind. But any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too: kill-crazy hired gunmen are threatening the whole valley, and good men are dying. Puddle may not be much, but he's all Smoke has - as a take-no-prisoners mountain man and a timid tinhorn make for an army of two...in one hell of a fight.
©2012 William W. Johnstone (P)2013 Recorded Books