Ralph Compton the Ghost of Apache Creek
By (Author) Joseph A. West
By (author) Ralph Compton
Penguin Putnam Inc
Signet
1st November 2011
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
304
Width 107mm, Height 173mm, Spine 20mm
170g
A man with nothing left to lose finds a reason to fight in this Ralph Compton western. Requiem, formerly known as Apache Creek, is a town that has seen better days. After a plague of cholera swept through the streets, the only folk left behind are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Even though he's still living and breathing, three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom-a lonely man that's more than a little touched in the head. But when a woman on the run stumbles into Requiem, Sam suddenly finds himself with a purpose. As Jess Leslie's murderous pursuers track her to Requiem, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice... More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!
Praise for the novels of Ralph Compton
Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore.Publishers Weekly
Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis LAmour and Zane Greythrilling stories of Western legend.The Huntsville Times (AL)
If you like Louis LAmour, youll love Ralph Compton.Quanah Tribune-Chief(TX)
Ralph Comptonstood six-foot-eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel,The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. As a little boy growing up in a small fishing village in Scotland, Joseph West enjoyed many happy Saturday mornings at the local cinema in the company of Roy and Gene and Hoppy. His lifelong ambition was to become a cowboy, but he was sidetracked by a career in law enforcement and journalism. He now resides with his wife and daughter in Palm Beach, Florida, where he enjoys horse riding, cowboy action shooting, and studying Western history.