Bøker av Gordon D. Shirreffs

The heroic journey of a Barbarian turned Gladiator...Son of a barbarian chieftain and a Roman noblewoman, Calgaich mac Lellan is exiled from his beloved country after slaying his cousin in a sword duel over the beautiful but vain Morar, "The Golden One." When his father is betrayed into the hands of the Romans by the one closest to him, Calgaich vows to overthrow his treacherous uncle and to take his rightful place as chief of the Novantae.The gods do not mean to let you return home.Recalling the prophecy of Cairenn, the bewitching slave woman, Calgaich is captured and condemned to the arena in Rome, from which few gladiators emerge alive. Will Calgaich have the strength to claim something once thought impossible for a man of his background and upbringing?¿"A powerful dramatic story." -Dana Fuller Ross, bestselling author of the Wagons West series

Author Gordon D. Shirreffs, winner of the Spur and Owen Wister Awards, is beloved for creating characters and stories of the old American West that excite the senses and satisfy the itch to be a gunslinger. In The Hidden Rider of Dark Mountain, Cade Willcox had only been in the Valley of the Bravo for a couple of days, but two attempts had already been made on his life. He wasn't afraid of a fight; the trouble was that he didn't know who the fight was with. His brother Dan had stirred up a ruckus with the Apaches and had wound up in a canyon up by Dark Mountain, murdered-which was why Cade was there. Though he hadn't let on to anyone about his mission, it was apparent he didn't have to. Obviously, they already knew...In Shadow of a Gunman, Thorp Barrett was only seventeen and hadn't seen much of life, but he'd already had his fill of death. As the kid brother of a notorious outlaw, Thorp already knew most of the tricks of the gunslick trade. The day that U.S. Marshal Doug Scott wiped out the Barrett gang, Lady Luck miraculously sided with Thorp. He was the only one to escape with his life. But Thorp had merely taken a rain check from the Grim Reaper, for when he inherited his brother's notched guns, he had also taken on his blood-oath to track Marshal Scott down to Boot Hill and send him for his own meeting with the Grim Reaper..."The joy of reading Shirreffs is in his mastery of pacing and his tough, gritty prose." - James Reasoner, author of the Wind River series

Owen Wister and Spur Award winning Gordon D. Shirreffs pens incredible, true-to-life tales of the American west that are sure to please even the most discerning consumer of Western fiction.In Last Man Alive, Lorimer had escaped the massacre at Big Hatchet thanks to pure blind luck-probably the only luck he'd ever had in his life. But the money was gone and the Indians sure hadn't taken it-they considered money bad medicine. The Army thought him a thief and a coward, the Indians wanted him dead just because they didn't like survivors, and Lorimer had nobody on his side but his outcast half-breed...In Now He Is Legend, Ross Starkey is a tormented drifter who lives by the gun and rides wherever the money is-to range wars in the north, to revolutions south of the border, to any outlaw renegade who has the right price to pay for his services. Now Starkey wants out, and there's only one thing that stands in his way-a man they call the Tascosa Kid. The coming showdown will be unlike any Starkey has faced..."The joy of reading Shirreffs' work is in his mastery of pacing and his tough, gritty prose." - James Reasoner, author of Outlaw Ranger.

Gordon D. Shirreffs, master of the Western action novel, turns his keen wit and skill toward two distinctly captivating tales of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of the young men who were duty bound to serve their country.In Action Front!: At Gettysburg, on the hot and heavy first day of battle, Battery B-known as "Crispin's Bulldogs"-faces not only the fierce rebel lines but disastrous panic in a huge wheel horse on one of its own gun teams. When Confederate metal finds its target, three figures in ill-fitting blue step from the war-shocked air to help serve the stricken gun. One underage, the second with a limp, and the third a half-pint, Ben Buell, Seth Pomeroy, and Zack Pascoe are the only members of their scattered company of Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia to answer at last the thrilling, terrible command of "Action front!" Allowed to remain with the gruff and grateful Bulldogs, little Zack becomes an assistant cook, Seth a gunnery corporal, and Ben, reunited with the horse that had been his pet back on the family farm, is made a wheel team driver.In The Gray Sea Raiders, Shirreffs tells the tales of the daring men of the Confederate States Navy who were determined to harass, burn, or capture ships of the opposing Northern fleet as they plied the waterways of the Atlantic. Overcoming numerous obstacles, including foul disease, Union retaliation, and ammunition problems, the crew of the vessel, Florida carried out its orders with great success and made young Clint Wallace a hero among his peers. "Written by the hand of a master!" -The New York Times 

Owen Wister Award winner Gordon D. Shirreffs spins tales of the old west that are exhilarating and bigger than life. You'll find two such full-length tales in this double volume sure to please even the most discerning consumer of Western fiction.In Arizona Justice, when Rowan Locke rode into Llano with a marshal's badge in his pocket and the iron will to bring back a killer, all he heard talk of was the terrible Donnigans, those five wild-tempered brothers who thought they were above the law.In The Lonely Gun, Case Hardesty had to cross what the Conquistadors called the Devil's Highway on foot-or die. It was the highest, driest, meanest desert in northern Mexico. Hot on the trail behind him were the outlaws he'd taken for $20,000-and behind them the lawmen who had sworn death to the lot of them.In one hand he held a Winchester, and in the other a salt sack stuffed with enough bills to buy a ranch in Sonora-if he made it. If he didn't, well, there was plenty of space for a grave out on the Devil's Highway..."The joy of reading Shirreffs' work is in his mastery of pacing and his tough, gritty prose." - James Reasoner, author of Outlaw Ranger.