J. Rodney Turner has narrated 64 audiobooks on Listento.it by 18 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 80 ratings. The most-rated is The First Mountain Man.
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
Return of the Mountain Man
Summary
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
Law of the Gun
Summary
It started with a slaughter and ended with a massacre, and by the finish of it, Sam Judge and Matt Dury had seen enough bloodshed to last them a lifetime. But the gun-fast men from Texas had signed on to help an army officer get his little girl back from the Apache renegades who’d kidnapped her, and once they gave their word, nothing would stop them from seeing a job through. Still, the odds against the success of their mission were almost as high as the odds against their survival. But Sam and Matt had one distinct advantage over their enemies. Because when it came down to cases, they could fight just as mean and just as dirty - as those enemies soon found out.
©1991, 2012 David Whitehead (P)2014 David Whitehead
Hang 'em All
Summary
They rode into Austin Springs stirrup to stirrup, six men with guns in their belts and blood in their eyes. The minute Town Marshal Sam Judge clapped eyes on them he pegged them as trouble. He was right, too, because by sunset Death had called and the blood on innocents had been spilled in the town's quiet and dusty streets. Almost before he knew it, Sam once a celebrated town-tamer whom Ned Buntline himself had called "The Pistol Prince" found himself embarking on a vengeance hunt. A boy Sam hadn't seen for fifteen years was connected with the killers, so that made it personal. But first and foremost, Sam was a peace-keeper. Convinced that the law would hang 'em all, he wanted the outlaws to have their day in court. The only thing he never reckoned on was the fact that they might very well kill him before he could find and catch them.
©1989, 2013 Ben Bridges (P)2014 David Whitehead
Trial by Fire
Summary
Blazing frontier action from six-time number one Amazon Kindle best-selling Western writer Ben Bridges! It was probably going to be the last great wagon train ever to go up the Oregon Trail... but right now the settlers were stranded in the middle of nowhere and they needed someone to get them safely through to the Promised Land. Sam Judge, the legendary town-tamer, had captained a few trains in his day, but he had no particular hankering to relive those wild times all over again. Those settlers still had hundreds of miles to go before they reached their destination, and the way ahead was filled with all kinds of danger. But fate had other ideas for Sam, and when they finally reached trail's end, he and his gun-fast young partner, Matt Dury, found themselves under sentence of death... and about to face a trial by fire!
©1993, 2012 David Whitehead (P)2014 David Whitehead
Grave Instinct
Summary
A horrifying series of murders has shocked a stretch of America's southern heartland. Not only are women turning up dead, but the killer has removed their brains with chilling surgical precision. A new murder has sent FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran to Jacksonville, Florida, on a search for answers to the most appalling murder spree she has ever encountered. But even she can't anticipate the twist her investigation is about to take - one that will give millions of people a front-row seat for the next victim's death.
©2010 Robert W. Walker (P)2014 Robert W. Walker
Cain
Summary
Two brothers, Cain and Seth McVeay, leave the swamplands of south Mississippi to find new lives: Cain as a minister of the Gospel, Seth to see what he could find and take. Cain lives as a circuit preacher until he finds he has crossed the trail of an outlaw that could be his brother. Seth sets out to be a gunslinger and bounty hunter, until a near death experience changes his life.
©2012 booksbyguyu (P)2015 Francis Louis Guy Smith
Montana Harvest
Summary
Murder for profit meets Native American justice. Torn between two different worlds, Jim Buchanan, the son of a Scotsman and Native American woman, had it all: a lucrative sports career with celebrity status. Yet, he sacrificed it all to return to his roots, to the land he knew and loved. In Cedar County, Montana, Sheriff Jim Buchanan is the law. When the FBI contacts him concerning a missing persons investigation, it threatens not only his life but also the life of the person dearest to his heart. In his attempt to solve the case, Jim faces a decades-old family secret and experiences the mystical nature of his Native American heritage.
©2013, 2015 Felix F. Giordano (P)2016 Felix F. Giordano
Cold Water Canyon
Summary
A gang of outlaws are robbing and murdering gold miners at the new gold strike camp in Cold Water Canyon. Will Cannon hopes it is the Blackman Gang commiting the crimes there. Blackman and his gang killed Will's family a few years ago in Virginia. Will Cannon swore an oath to find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang. Will rides the trail, alone once again, to put an end to the evil in Cold Water Canyon.
©2010-2014 Larry Hill (P)2014 Larry Hill
The Killing Zone
Summary
A darkness shrouds Montana. The Killing Zone, a gritty tale of revenge, mayhem, murder, and miracles. Released on parole after serving 12 years of a 20-year prison sentence, Videl Tanas, vicious leader of the Screaming Skulls outlaw motorcycle club, is obsessed with enacting revenge against the people who testified against him and anyone else who gets in his way. While Tanas spawns a trail of mayhem and murder across Montana, Native American Sheriff Jim Buchanan closes in on the gang. When Jim's daughter Alma Rose Two Elk, Shaman of the Crow Nation, is kidnapped by Tanas, Jim pursues the gang on horseback into the untamed wilderness of northwestern Montana where an unfulfilled Plains Indian prophesy awaits its revelation.
©2017 Felix F. Giordano (P)2017 Felix F. Giordano
The Circus
Summary
Will Cannon takes his adopted children to Taos, New Mexico, to see the circus, and Will meets a beautiful woman there who performs in the circus. Two days after the circus leaves town, a bank gets robbed in Taos and a man is murdered. Will and his brother, Joe, go investigate the crime, and the evidence leads them to some men who work for the circus. Will sets out alone to discover the truth about the circus.
©2015 Larry Hill (P)2016 Larry Hill
Dark Territory
Summary
In the boomtown of Dover Station, Montana, tracks have been laid, and everyone's looking to make a fortune, lawfully or not. And the law has something to say about it - one bullet at a time.... Dover Station - where death rides faster than the wind A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his battered badge authorizes him to shoot. When Mackey and his backup gun down four kill-crazy bandits, they uncover a plot cooked up by respected citizens of Dover Station - someone who can pull enough strings to replace Mackey with a disgraced marshal from Texas. Now, Mackey's badge may not say much, but his gun defies all fear. Anyone who stands between Mackey and the future of Dover Station is about to become buried in the pages of history....
©2019 Terrence McCauley (P)2019 Tantor
The Robber's Roost
Summary
Will Cannon takes on the difficult task of finding the robber's roost. The Dutch Cromwell Gang hides out in their roost in the Wyoming badlands, and the gang has been robbing banks and trains for the last 10 years. Will assumes the name of Avery, a Texas outlaw, to get into the robber's roost - but he finds that the ranch is owned by a man that is not an outlaw and there are two children at the ranch. This is a classic western adventure novel set in the badlands of Wyoming.
©2003 Larry Ray Hill (P)2015 Larry Hill
Hell Hollow
Summary
From out of a shadowy backwoods hollow echoes a dark threat from the past, nearly a century lost and forgotten. The rural town of Harmony, Tennessee, possessed a disturbing secret; a secret so ancient that most of its residents were completely unaware of it. Even the last survivors of a vigilante raid long ago have filed the tragic events of that autumn night away, totally unaware of the evil that remains, dormant, but forever patient, among the tall pines and thick-leaved kudzu of a place known only as Hell Hollow. There it would have remained, unrevealed, if not for a handful of unknowing participants. Four kids, bored for excitement during one of the hottest summers on record; a killer on the run, dodging his latest atrocity; and a rape victim on a deadly mission - scarred in both body and mind all have a hand in bringing forth an unspeakable evil from the dark woods of Hell Hollow. He is a skeletal figure in top hat and tails, brandishing a handful of magical cards and a patented elixir that was brewed in the very depths of Purgatory.
©2010 Ronald Kelly (P)2014 David N. Wilson
The Red Rawlings Gang
Summary
Will Cannon gets trapped in a train station by a blizzard, and there is a hired killer on the train that is in with the Red Rawlings Gang. Will befriends a young cowboy, and they work together to get the train to Raton, New Mexico, and to fight the Red Rawlings and his gang of ruthless cutthroats. Will uses every tool at his disposal to save the beautiful Kate Winslow and her young daughter.
©2004, 2015 Larry Ray Hill (P)2015 Larry Hill
Dirty Dealing
Summary
Minutes into this rollicking good story, the central figure, Lee Chagra, comes alive: "[Lee] washed his morning cocaine down with strong coffee and remembered the time he had met Sinatra, how genuine he appeared." Everything you'll need to know and remember about Chagra - the son of Syrian immigrants to Mexico and an attorney who spun the world of dope-running, border-crossing, high-living outlaws along the El Paso-Juarez border around his finger like the gaudy rings he favored - can be neatly summarized in that one sentence. Chagra dies not long after, yet he haunts the rest of this cautionary tale like a high-rolling specter.
©1984, 1998 Gary Cartwright (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Lost Horse Mesa
Summary
Will Cannon leaves his Mora River Ranch and rides the trail alone to the small town of Lost Horse Mesa to continue his search for the Blackman Gang. When he gets to Lost Horse Mesa, he finds a gang of outlaws robbing and murdering innocent victims there. Will saves two young bronc busters from two hired killers and the bronc busters join the fight against the outlaw gang. Will also meets a beautiful woman that is about to have her ranch stolen by the outlaw gang. Now Will must discover why the outlaw boss, Major Radclift, wants the land and is willing to murder innocent people to get this ranch land.
©2008 Larry Ray Hill (P)2014 Larry Hill
The Silver Dollar Killer
Summary
The Silver Dollar Kille has struck again. The hired killer, who marks his victims by placing a silver dollar under the victim's head, has killed another innocent rancher. Will Cannon hopes the outlaw gang doing the robbing and killing near silver strike town of Durango, Colorado are the Blackman Gang. The Blackman Gang killed Will's family in Virginia several years ago and when Will stood over the graves of his loved ones he swore an oath to find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang. Will Cannon leaves his Mora River Ranch and rides alone to face the danger in Durango.
©2009 Larry Hill (P)2014 Larry Hill
Outside the Law
Summary
There's a new badge in the land of crime fiction...and it's pinned on a man who can stand tall alongside lawmen like Raylan Givens, Walt Longmire, and Jesse Stone. Sheriff Colt Harper lives by his own moral code. His relentless crusade against drug crimes in his rural Mississippi county infuriates a Memphis mobster who sends Hack, his cold-blooded assassin, to stop him. ATF Special Agent Molly McDonough, looking to save her troubled career, follows Hack's trail of corpses to Harper's turf. The fates of Harper, McDonough, and Hack collide in a bloody, brutal showdown for justice, redemption, and survival that can only be fought outside the law.
©2017 Phillip Thompson (P)2017 Brash Books LLC
Deadwood
Summary
Deadwood, Dakota Territories, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepreneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane. Fueled by liquor, sex, and violence, this is the real Wild West, unlike anything portrayed in the dime novels that first told its story.
©1986 Pete Dexter (P)2019 Tantor