He is the editor of over 30 anthologies.
All told he is the author of over novels. His arms are very, very tired. Clint Adams, a man whose name was known far and wide in the West. Men trembled and women quivered when he rode into town, for Adams was also the legendary figure known as The Gunsmith! Extremists loyal to the now dead Confederacy capture the corpse of Lincoln and the Government goes to The Gunsmith to get it back! With ransom in hand, Clint Adams sets out to discover who was behind the snatching of his friend, President Abraham Lincoln. With his friend, private detective Talbot Roper, The Gunsmith encounters soldiers not yet ready to give up the fight and ready to die for the Confederacy!
From Pro Se Productions! When Eclipse is stolen in the night by a notorious horse thief thought dead, The Gunsmith tears across Texas and into New Mexico, intent on retrieving his most trusted friend and putting anyone in the ground who stands in his way. Riding deep into enemy territory, The Gunsmith finds madmen intent on anarchy in New Mexico and a seductive woman, ready to use her body and more to make sure that she is queen of a lawless land!
- Fußballfieber! (Geschichten von Max, Marlena und ihren Freunden) (German Edition).
- The Fates.
- Travels to the Sixth Dimension: A Journey Through Hyper-Space (The Voyager Series Book 1)!
- !
Women rush to be near him and smart men step out of his way. Only planning to stay a day or so, The Gunsmith finds himself inadvertently tangled up in a fight between two families. The Tanner brothers, trying their hardest to be bad men, come into conflict with the Colters, the reigning outlaws in town. Owing them money, the Tanners come up with a dangerous idea when they learn Clint Adams is in Casa Grande.
They intend to kidnap The Gunsmith for ransom! Suddenly in danger from all sides, including a kill crazy gunslinger desperate to add him to the notches in his pistol, Adams finds himself unable to trust anyone, even the beautiful women pursuing him. As families fight, it falls to The Gunsmith to deal out death, just to make sure he rides out of town alive. Clint Adams is known far and wide for his expertise with a gun, but The Gunsmith is just as legendary for his prowess with women.
Both come into play when a comely young doctor approaches him to help her grandfather, an aged sheriff who is in over his head. Adams agrees, but rides into town with his own plan- to infiltrate the gang of outlaws threatening the town and tear it apart from within. Finding the sheriff to be more stubborn and in need of help than he thought, The Gunsmith realizes that saving anyone will most definitely mean bullets and blood.
Surrounded by the cantankerous sheriff, deadly cutthroats, and a beautiful redhead named Glory, The Gunsmith finds himself staring down gun barrels and standing face to face with Death. Circuses make Clint Adams uneasy. Someone is murdering women and Clint Adams learns that the killings may be tied to the traveling circus moving into town. Although one who keeps to his own business, Adams finds himself encouraged by the local sheriff and intrigued enough by the rash of killings to begrudgingly help.
- Get A Copy?
- Follow the Author.
- .
- The Cast Iron Shore by Linda Grant?
- Clarence: My Diary of a Very Unusual Hamster.
- J. R. Roberts- Author.
- Pédiatrie (French Edition).
- The Cast Iron Shore.
- Cast Iron Stars: theranchhands.com.
And in order to do that, The Gunsmith joins the circus. Going undercover, Clint Adams is certain that the killer is one of the circus folk. As they travel to the next town, he encounters a silent, sensual female clown, a daring and beautiful lion tamer, among others. To stop the killings, The Gunsmith finds himself in the center ring, a target for murder! Where The Gunsmith travels, trouble is usually waiting for him. Clint Adams finds out how true this is when a beautiful young woman asks him to protect her.
A band of outlaws has threatened to kidnap and harm her in order to force her wealthy father to do their bidding. But thanks to her beauty and the promise of a thousand dollars, the trio of bloodthirsty killers will have to deal with The Gunsmith. Death and deception run wild in the streets of San Francisco and they seek The Gunsmith!
The Gunsmith only takes jobs that he wants to, that is until riding into Festus, Wyoming. The most powerful rancher in the county offers Clint Adams a seemingly easy proposition, just making a delivery to California. Even though part of the package is a stunning woman, Adams refuses and suddenly finds himself accused of a crime he did not commit. Facing jail or death by hanging, Adams takes on the job and the girl.
What he rides into turns into much more than his arm being twisted and a simple delivery. Bullets fly and betrayal and blood flow as The Gunsmith finds himself fighting to stay alive! But when The Gunsmith finds out a lady acquaintance has left him a large inheritance, he rides into Dodge to find its boomtown history a thing of the past.
While trying to decide what to do with his new found wealth, Adams uncovers a conspiracy to use the ranch he now owns for criminal purposes. Finding himself caught between bloodthirsty outlaws, conniving businessmen, and beautiful women, The Gunsmith will be lucky if he lives long enough to enjoy his windfall! The Gunsmith finds himself riding along Monterey Bay because he wanted to see the ocean.
He gets more than he bargains for, seeing a young girl being pursued by three men. Helping her, The Gunsmith soon rides into the midst of hatred, thievery, and death. Saving the girl, Adams finds himself in the nearby town of Pacific Grove where he learns of the lighthouse at Point Pinos and its beguiling keeper. Curious about the stories swirling around the lighthouse and its proprietor, Clint stays around Pacific Grove, questions about several things nagging at him.
A bullet from behind downs The Gunsmith as he rides through Arizona, only surviving because Eclipse carried him to safety. Discovered by a lonely widow as tough as the land she works, Clint Adams is well taken care of.
Cast Iron Stars
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Sybil Ross has been brought up by her Jewish furrier father and style-obsessed mother to be an empty-headed fashion plate. But on the worst night of Liverpool's blitz she uncovers a secret that leaves her disorientated and eventually leads her to the very edge of America and a final choice.
Paperback , pages.
Western Fictioneers
Published June 18th by Granta Books first published January 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Cast Iron Shore , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Having read all of Linda Grant's novels except this, her first, I was disappointed to find I struggled through long and tedious sections about politics. Written in the first person, Sybil is not a sympathetic character in any way. Her good looks are maybe an excuse for her selfishness and that chip on her shoulder she never loses.
Her relationships with both the awful Stan and Julius were constantly boring. There was so little plot, something that Grant puts right in all her following books. I al Having read all of Linda Grant's novels except this, her first, I was disappointed to find I struggled through long and tedious sections about politics. I almost gave up half way through. She obviously had so much to say in this first novel, that it goes on far too long.
Customers who bought this item also bought
However, there are certain parts which are good and show the potential of an excellent writer. A stronger editor would have done wonders in reducing the text by at least a third. Aug 19, Kiwiflora rated it it was ok. Linda Grant has become a bit of favourite in our book club lately, starting with 'The Clothes on Their Backs' which was short listed for the Man Booker in , and the non-fiction 'The Thoughtful Dresser'.
These two books both reveal the author's very deep love and appreciation of clothes as more than just garments. She sees what you wear as crucial to self-identity, self-esteem, inner peace and harmony. Clothes are not just what we wear, but what we are. So what does all this have to do with th Linda Grant has become a bit of favourite in our book club lately, starting with 'The Clothes on Their Backs' which was short listed for the Man Booker in , and the non-fiction 'The Thoughtful Dresser'. So what does all this have to do with this particular novel, Linda Grant's first one, first published in , and re-published last year?
Although the story is not really about what we wear or what we look like, it is very much a central theme to the whole story and the raison d'etre of its main character, Sybil Ross and a number of other characters in the story. The story begins in Liverpool, in Sybil is a teenager, living with her Serbian Jewish furrier father with his dark East European features, and her very stylish and beautiful mother, blond and blue eyed from Holland. Sybil has taken after her father in her looks and her personality although adores her mother with her gorgeousness and has considerable of appreciation of beautiful clothing and furs even as a 14 year old.
Furs are a recurring symbol through the whole story and central to the essence of Sybil in her life. The war changes everything. Liverpool is blitzed to bits, and on one the worst night of the blitz Sybil learns something about her parents that changes her view of the world and how she perceives her place in it.
From then on she drifts, and that is really what the rest of the book is about - Sybil's drifting: And I don't think she ever really finds her true self either. Interestingly enough, after spending her life looking for whatever she is looking for, she ends up exactly where she started. As soon as the war is over, just 21, she flees Liverpool plus all the things her parents stand for, and sails to New York, with her furs of course the one thing she can't let go , in search of Stan, her Royal Navy boyfriend also from Liverpool.
Stan has his own identity problems but he is a very snappy dresser - a spiv. She finds Stan and being both pretty and stylish she finds a job in a top department store. Big changes are afoot in the post-war world and Sybil finds herself drawn to the black community, persecuted and downtrodden in America much like the Jews had always been in Europe. Communism is on the rise and is seen as the vehicle of change for the black population. Sybil is soon immersed into the local red circle, despite her very bourgeois background, after falling for Julius, a charismatic black man.
Naturally she has to give up her comfort blanket - her furs - and working in the store - the ultimate symbol of consumerism and capitalism and live like the other comrades.
In other words owning nothing, completely divorced from anything remotely bourgeois, and unable to do anything that doesn't have the express approval of the committee. Against her inner most judgement she goes with Julius to a grotty little working class town in the middle of the mid-West, Michigan or Minnesota - read middle of nowhere, works in a potato chip factory.
Julius is 'chosen' for further training and education in Moscow, leaving Sybil alone and stranded. All this is happening during McCarthyism and the manic anti-communism witch hunts and persecutions that were going on in the s. With Julius gone Sybil basically has to live an underground sort of existence for quite some time and eventually makes her way to the west coast, which had always been her goal.
She has to make a few difficult decisions, but even then her continuing indecision about her life is infuriating to the reader. More choices are made and after quite a lot more drifting Sybil finds herself living in England again having come full circle back to her bourgeois roots.