

In this first book, Conrad’s beloved wife, Rebel, is kidnapped for ransom and when he delivers the $50,000, she is brutally murdered and Conrad is left alive. They gradually warmed to each other over the years. Their relationship was a tenuous one at best. In the early books, Conrad didn’t approve of or like his father. She left half of her estate to Morgan, half to Conrad. Raised in the East, Conrad was unaware of who his father was(as Morgan was unaware he had a son) until after her death. It centers around a former minor character in the long running series, The Last Gunfighter, Frank Morgan, known as The Drifter, created by William Johnstone and continued after his passing.Ĭonrad Browning is Morgan’s son from a short marriage when he was young, ended by his father-in-law, a rich man who didn’t approve of a gunfighter married to his daughter.

Johnstone, the first book to carry the name without William W, Johnstone in large letters above it. ©1989 William W.THE LONER is the first book in a new western series from Pinnacle Books. Performed by Thomas Penny, Dylan Lynch, James Lewis, David Coyne, James Konicek, Nanette Savard, Jeff Baker, Sunny Lasskey, Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Tim Carlin, Michael Replogle, Bruce Rauscher, Ken Jackson, Christopher Graybill, Nathanial Perry, Chris Rohan, Mort Shelby. And there's only going to be two kinds of folk in the bloody battle that's about to begin - the kind that kill.and the kind that die. Because General Armstrong Custer and his men are riding fast toward the Little Big Horn River. War is brewing and it seems Bodine and Two Wolves are going to be forced to choose sides. Meanwhile, in the town of Cutter, greedy rancher Tom Thomas is recruiting an army of gun hawks to steal Indian land. Tensions in the territory are running red hot, what with Lone Dog and his band of renegades scalping settlers by the dozen. And as years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together - and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them. Beneath the Montana big sky, Matt learned the ways of the Cheyenne from his friend.


Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the half breed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break.
