Shootout Street

About the Book

Strangers don´t seem to be welcome in the small Texas town where traveler George Johnson has stopped.  Unwilling to leave before he´s ready, he is challenged and drawn on by the local fast gun, Keller, who isn´t quite fast enough.  Johnson´s promptly arrested, and waits for either a circuit judge or a lynch mob. Johnson encourages the sheriff to wire a railroad detective, Gus Yager.  Yager is interested, and arrives to arrange extradition, which proves to involve gunplay and an early departure.  Local girls will miss them, but they´ll be back.  Johnson wants his freedom, and will help Yager to catch Keller´s boss, Mercer, a rancher who has a sideline in train robbery. Johnson and Yager have to board the train in a storm, and battle the Mercer gang for the gold that Yager guards.  Yager tells George Johnson, "One of you is going back with me, if one lives."

About the Author

N. Ross Peterson is a retired communications worker, living for many years in Arizona, with a large extended family. He writes fiction and poetry. A Bad Name And A Bullet is his first novel.