Dead Man's Hand (A Wild Bill Western Book 1)

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DEAD MAN’S HAND



Marshal, gunfighter, stage driver, and scout, Wild Bill Hickok had a legend as big and untamed as the West itself. No man was as good with a gun as Wild Bill, and few men used one as often. From Abilene to Deadwood, his name was known by all—and feared by many. That’s why he was hired by Allan Pinkerton’s new detective agency to protect an eccentric inventor on a train ride through the worst badlands of the West. With hired thugs out to kill him and angry Sioux out for his scalp, Bill knew he had his work cut out for him. But even if he survived that, he had a still worse danger to face—a jealous Calamity Jane.





ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Judd Cole is the pseudonym used by John Edward Ames (who has also written 31 books as Judd Cole including the popular Cheyenne series) lives in New Orleans and has been a fulltime writer since 1986, when he sold his first novel, The Force.

Since quitting his job teaching English composition at the University of New Mexico, he has written 83 published books (and six more as a ghostwriter). He has written one nonfiction book, The Real Deadwood, as John Ames.

He is also a freelance journalist and has appeared in many national and large urban newspapers, Including The Christian Science Monitor, as well as dozens of Web sites.

"More than anybody now writing about that long-ago time and place of the Old West, John Edward Ames most reminds me of my old friend and mentor, Will Henry. I can truly think of no higher compliment to give either man."

Terry C. Johnston, author of Winter Rain