Rusty Nelson has narrated 66 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 22 ratings. The most-rated is Easy Errors.
Shadows
Summary
Rone Chato is content to run a dude ranch and has no desire to return to Denver police work. However, he can’t say no to his best friend whose wife has been kidnapped with other wealthy women in a bizarre and daring operation. Chato soon becomes a target as he peels layers of information from past crimes that have affected his professional and private lives.
©2011 Books In Motion (P)2011 Books In Motion
Frontier Fury
Summary
Mountain Maniac: For frontiersman Nate King, the Rockies are the last untamed wilderness, a place of magnificent beauty and unparalleled danger, a place to respect and call home. He and his family begin a trek through this harsh terrain with no wish but to see their cabin at journey's end. But a chance encounter with a deranged settler leads Nate to the startling discovery that the man has big plans for this wild land. Rejected by the army, William Proctor plans to carve his own empire, creating a new Eden all his own. He's determined to succeed at any cost, even if it brings the wrath of the Blackfoot Confederacy upon them all. Now it's up to Nate to stop a crazed colonel in his tracks before he takes down scores of innocents - including Nate's own wife and daughter - in a blaze of maniacal glory.
©2014 Books In Motion (P)2014 Books In Motion
Dead Weight
Summary
A well-seasoned 69, Sheriff Bill Gastner knows his Posadas, New Mexico, territory as well as he understands the foibles of the human condition. So when a backhoe crushes a man to death, it's more instinct than fact that leaves him feeling there is more to this "accident" than meets the eye.
©2000 Steven F Havill (P)2004 Books in Motion
Trail's End
Summary
Strong mountain men like Nate King risked everything to carve a new world from the frontier, and they weren't about to give it up without a fight. But when some friendly Crows asked Nate to help them rescue a missing girl from a band of murderous Lakota, he set off on a journey that would take him to the end of the trail - and possibly the end of his life.
©1995 David Thompson (P)2010 Books In Motion
Pinkerton's Gold
Summary
John Whyte, Pinkerton detective, war hero, and banished son of an English Earl, undertakes the difficult assignment of discovering who is responsible for a series of deadly gold shipment robberies. Along with his faithful servant and companion, Kahm Singh, a retired Sikh warrior, and assisted by Curly Bill Williams, a happy-go-lucky Texan, John travels to Denver in the company of Rafe Wallace, the man who hired the Pinkerton's in a desperate attempt to save his gold operations from the vicious gang of cutthroats who seem to know his every plan...
©2012 Books In Motion (P)2012 Books In Motion
Flames of Justice
Summary
In the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, there is frequently only one law; the law of survival. But sometimes even the brave men and women living on the brutal frontier must answer to the justice of so-called civilization. This is the lesson that famed mountain man Nate King and his son, Zach, are about to learn. Zach, a half-breed, has been brought to trial, accused of being the ringleader of a blood-drenched Indian massacre at a trading post. Nate knows that his son is innocent, and can't understand how anyone would ever think Zach could be guilty of such a crime. But Nate isn't aware of the devious plotting and scheming that's going on behind locked doors, or the horrible lengths that the schemers would go to in order to see Zach hanged!
©2016 Books in Motion (P)2016 Books in Motion
Out of Season
Summary
Sheriff Martin Holman of the Posadas County Sheriff's Department didn't like flying, much less at night, with bad weather. So why he took a plane ride over a nearby mesa under those dangerous conditions is a question as disturbing as why somebody shot the pilot dead from the ground - causing the plane to crash. Undersheriff Bill Gastner, a 60-something warhorse just months away from retirement, now has a murder on his hands. The only possible lead is a roll of film, and with it, Gastner is determined to find out what the late Sheriff Holman was up to. Following his sharp instincts and a tenacity born of long years as a cop, he uncovers a scheme of illegal doings and nasty buried secrets. Unfortunately, it could make his biggest case his last.
©1999 Steven F. Havill (P)2003 Books in Motion
In Cruel Clutches
Summary
Zach King, son of legendary mountain man Nate King, is at home in the harshest terrain of the Rockies. But nothing can prepare him for the perils of civilization. Locked in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with his sister's kidnapper, Zach wends his way through the streets of New Orleans like the seasoned hunter he is. Yet this is not the wild, and the trappings of society offer his prey only more places to hide. Dodging fists, knives, bullets and even jail, Zach will have to adjust to his new territory quickly - his sister's life depends on it.
©2017 Books in Motion (P)2017 Books in Motion
Wolf Pack
Summary
Mountain man Nathaniel King and other settlers in the Rockies are forever on the lookout for possible dangers - and always ready to match death with death. But when a marauding band of killers and thieves kipnaps his wife and children, Nate has finally run into enemies who've pushed his skill and cunning to the limit.
©2010 David Thompson (P)2010 Books In Motion
Only the Strong
Summary
Hot pursuit. Nate and Winona King know the frontier is a dangerous place. Even more so for a family of runaway slaves. The Kings thought they saved their new friends from the worst of their troubles, a gang of vicious slave hunters. But two of the hunters survived - and have hired a seasoned frontiersman and four killers to track the Kings and the runaways down. Nate and Winona continue to lead their party across the vast prairie to the far distant Rockies. Little do they realize that a pack of two-legged wolves are nipping at their heels...and that eventually the prairie will run red with blood.
©2021 Books in Motion (P)2021 Books in Motion
Northwest Passage
Summary
The epic struggle for survival in America's untamed West. In Northwest Passage, Nathaniel King made a mistake that could be his last when he agrees to lead a seemingly innocent group of pioneers through the treacherous mountains. For the Banner party had a secret hidden there that they did not want revealed.
Public Domain (P)2009 Books In Motion
The Rising Storm
Summary
Mountain man Nate King comes to the aid of his friends Simon and Felicity Ward when a ruthless Easterner lays claim to hundreds of square miles as his private hunting preserve, including their homestead. Rated PG
©2019 Books in Motion (P)2019 Books in Motion
Winterkill
Summary
Savage and dangerous, the unexplored Rockies hid threats that could kill even the most experienced mountain men. For mountain man Nathaniel King, helping stranded travelers had become common. But when he takes in a pair of strangers who have lost their way, his kindness is repaid with vile treachery.
©2004 C.J. Box (P)2009 Books In Motion
Cry Freedom
Summary
Samuel Worth never meant to kill the man. But when the son of the plantation owner they worked for tried to attack Samuel’s daughter, he had to defend her. Now his whole family is on the run from a pack of slave hunters and their bloodhounds - straight into the deadly wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Nate King and his family value their freedoms. It is one of the reasons they chose to live so far from civilization. It’s also why Nate knows he and his wife, Winona, must use every trick at hand to help the Worth’s escape their captors - even if it costs them their own freedom.
©2020 Books in Motion (P)2020 Books in Motion
Fang and Claw
Summary
The canyon of death. To survive the untamed wilderness a man needs all the friends he can get. No one can battle the continual dangers for long on his own. Even a fearless frontiersman like Nate King needs help now and then and he’s always ready to give it when it's needed. So when an elderly Shoshone warrior comes to Nate asking for help, Nate agrees to lend a hand - no matter how strange the request may be. The old warrior knows he doesn't have long to live and he wants to die in the remote canyon where his true love was killed many years before, slain by a giant bear straight out of Shoshone myth. No Shoshone will dare accompany the old warrior, so he and Nate will brave the dreaded canyon alone. And as Nate soon learns the hard way, some legends are far better left undisturbed.
©2013 Books in Motion (P)2013 Books in Motion
Privileged to Kill
Summary
Wesley Crocker is accused of the murder of young Maria Ibarra, who was found near the "camping place" of the drifter. Crocker's account of the previous night leads Undersheriff Bill Gastner to more troubling questions.
©1997 Steven F Havill (P)2003 Books in Motion
King of the Mountain
Summary
Nathaniel King left New York City in 1828 to venture into the vast unexplored regions beyond Mississippi. He heads west, lured on by dreams of wealth based on his uncle's promise to share with him "the greatest treasure in the world".
©1990 David Thompson (P)2002 Books in Motion
Ride with Custer
Summary
This is book 2 in the John Whyte saga of the American West. John helped smash a Confederate spy ring and was rewarded with command of his own cavalry brigade. To his amazement, his old junior officer Lieutenant, George Custer, shows up as his commanding General. In the desperate fight at Gettysburg, John grudgingly accepts Custer for the military genius that he is. After mortally wounding the Grey Cavalier of the South Jeb Stuart at the battle of Yellow Tavern, John is also wounded. For his actions, he is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. But danger threatens from vengeful Confederate spies...
©2012 Books In Motion (P)2012 Books In Motion
Twice Buried
Summary
Undersheriff Bill Gastner knows that the dead bodies on Reuben Fuentes' ranch cannot point to the old man. Gastner summons former deputy Estelle Reyes for help.
©1994 Steven F. Havill (P)2002 Books in Motion
Bitter Recoil
Summary
Aging Undersheriff Bill Gastner's vacation is interrupted by the dead body of a young woman, apparently thrown from a moving car. Other murders convince the Undersheriff to lend a hand.
©1992 Steven F Havill (P)2001 Books in Motion