William W. Johnstone has 262 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 156 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 165 ratings. The most-rated is The First Mountain Man.
Burning Daylight
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Bounty hunter Luke Jensen has always relied on his guns, his brains, and his guts to bring in the deadliest outlaws in the West. But when a family needs his help, he'll have to use something else: his heart.... Luke Jensen has seen some sorry-looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and 42 cents - plus one busted harmonica - to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinney's 12-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. The reward is all the money Aaron can scrape together. Luke can't say no to the poor boy - or his beautiful mother - so he agrees to go after McKinney and his bank-robbing gang. Good deeds, however, are like good intentions - the road to hell is paved with them. And when Aaron McKinney decides to tag along, it puts Luke in the middle of a father-and-son reunion that's life-or-death, blood-for-blood, and kill-or-be-killed....
©2019 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
Journey of the Mountain Man
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Blood on the range Smoke Jensen couldn't have cared less that a range war had erupted in Montana. But his cousin Fae was stuck right in the middle of a hundred-gun showdown that was about to explode in bullets and blood. When Smoke strapped on his Colts and went to Fae's aid, he knew the deck was stacked against him. Even when he was joined by four old friends, it looked like it was going to be his final stand. But if anyone could buck the odds, it was Smoke Jensen, the last mountain man. Contains mature themes.
©1989 William W. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
A Stranger in Town
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America's greatest Western storytellers begin the explosive new legend of Will Tanner, a US deputy marshal who will risk everything to save a friend, and bring two desperados to justice.... The train grinds to a halt somewhere in the Indian Nations, and the bandits get onboard. They take everything on the train worth stealing and gun down a guard to make their escape - just another notch on the belt for Ben Trout and Zack Larsen, two of the most savage killers in the west. US Deputy Marshal Ed Pine follows them to Muskogee. There the trail runs cold, and Ed Pine diappears. To save his friend, Deputy Will Tanner rides for Muskogee, where justice extends only as far as the range of a Colt .45. Tanner earned his badge in a blistering gunfight, when he got the drop on a trio of killers and saved the life of another fellow marshal. Now, he'll have to be just as quick - and just as deadly. To bring in Trout and Larsen, Tanner must set his badge aside and resort to the law of the gun.
©2016 J. A. Johnstone (P)2019 Tantor
Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter
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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
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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
Return of the Mountain Man
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In this powerful novel, William W. Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness - where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul.... Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher. Now, Smoke Jensen, with a new black horse and an old grudge, slips over the unmarked border into the turbulent Idaho Territory. Ahead is a town called Bury, built on stolen gold, and run by a band of ruthless men who had a hand in the murder of Smoke's brother in the Civil War. Smoke's father died in pursuit of those killers, but urged his son not to waste his life on vengeance.... Swift, powerful, and poetic, Return of the Mountain Man is an action-packed tale by William W. Johnstone, an American master - and a great chronicler of our harsh and often unforgiving last frontier. Contains mature themes.
©1986 William W. 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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Hate Thy Neighbor [Dramatized Adaptation]
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They risked their lives to make a home in the heart of West Texas. Now the Kerrigan family must face the deadliest challenges of the land they love — and the evil that men do. Come hell or high water.... After a two-year drought, the Kerrigan ranch is dry as a bone and as dusty as a honky-tonk bible. On the brink of ruin, Kate Kerrigan hires the rainmaker Professor Somerset Lazarus, who promises salvation — in the form of a deluge. Kate is desperate enough to try anything. But when four angry gunmen show up, ready to lynch the phony rainmaker for swindling them out of their money, the Kerrigans have to choose sides fast — before the bullets start to fly. It doesn’t take a divining rod to figure out that these unsatisfied customers want more than a refund. They have their sites set on the Kerrigan ranch. And it’s just a matter of time until it’s raining water or raining bullets. Either way, there will be blood.... Performed by Colleen Delany, Helen Pafumi, Bob Payne, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Michael Glenn, Dylan Lynch, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Matthew McGee, Evan Casey, Ren Casey, Patrick Bussink, Nick DePinto, Thomas Keegan, Marni Penning, Zeke Alton, David Jourdan, Eric Messner, Ken Jackson, Matthew Bassett, Jason B McIntosh, Bradley Smith, Jacob Yeh, Christopher Scheeren, Richard Rohan, Drew Kopas, Peter Holdway, Alejandro Ruiz, Bru Ajueyitsi, Michael John Casey, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Jennifer Hopkins, Steven Carpenter, Nora Achrati, Maggie Donnelly, Lily Beacon, Nanette Savard, Tia Shearer, Terence Aselford, Elizabeth Jernigan, Dani Stoller.
©2017 J.A. Johnstone (P)2017 Graphic Audio, LLC
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The Edge Of Hell [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Tombstone, Arizona was the most violent town in the west, until this wide open frontier town got a new kind of sheriff. A rancher, a Ranger, and a veteran of the Civil War, John Horton Slaughter is the true-life hero of best-selling authors William and J.A. Johnstone’s new Western series, a novel of passions igniting into war. A beautiful woman, a powerful Mexican rancher, and an exotic new breed of cattle come to John Slaughter’s San Bernardino Valley ranch, along with the prospect of making a small fortune. While Slaughter’s men are out keeping the peace in Tombstone, an act of betrayal turns up the heat under his own roof, and a killer is stalking Slaughter’s wealthy Mexican guest. Indians suddenly savagely attack Slaughter’s ranch, but it is only the first shot in a bigger, blazing Arizona bloodbath. The real enemy is coming next: armed to the teeth, driven by vengeance, , and deep into a killing spree that only John Slaughter alone can stop.... Performed by Terence Aselford, David Jourdan, Laura C Harris, Gregory Wooddell, Nick DePinto, Patrick Bussink, Eva Wilhelm, Scott McCormick, Michael Glenn, Andy Brownstein, Evan Casey, Scott Graham, Michael John Casey, Eric Messner, Colleen Delany, Bradley Smith, Ken Jackson, Matthew Bassett, Nathanial Perry, Richard Rohan, Nanette Savard.
©2014 J.A. Johnstone (P)2016 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