Lou Prophet Books

A novel of brutality and justice in the Dakota territory from the Spur Award finalist: “Brandvold writes a lot like L’Amour.”— The Forum (Fargo, ND) In Lou Prophet’s lawless West, justice comes from the barrel of a gun—his gun. Peter Brandvold’s acclaimed two-fisted Westerns tell of the bloody days (and thrilling nights) of the bounty hunter called Prophet, and the dangerous woman he dared to love. . . . BLOOD AT SUNDOWN Lou Prophet and the deadly Louisa Bonaventure have torn a bloody swath across Dakota territory in search of the Griff Hatchley gang. When they finally catch up to them, an epic blizzard threatens to turn the Dakota prairie into a frozen hell. To bag their prey before the storm hits, Prophet and Louisa split up—and take separate paths towards damnation. DEATH IN THE SNOW Prophet’s course takes him into a town packed to the gills with the deadliest outlaws that roamed the frontier, while Louisa gets caught in Sundown, a one-horse town where a hatchet-wielding maniac threatens to paint Main Street red. When spring’s thaw comes, they’ll find a city of corpses beneath the snow. And nobody gives a damn about the law . . . “Here’s a writer with the hot, fast violence of the early Mickey Spillane and the guts to write what he wants.” — Tom McNulty, Dispatches From the Last Outlaw

Of all the legends of the Old West, few are as stained with ink, blood, and bullets as the violent days of bounty hunter Lou Prophet. But what happens when the hunter becomes the hunted? Heaven knows there’ll be hell to pay . . . THE DEVIL RIDES AGAIN After a hard night with his sometime lover Louisa Bonaventure—“the Vengeance Queen”—Lou Prophet decides to cool his heels at a local honky tonk. Things heat up fast when he defends one of the girls from a sadistic brute who also happens to be the deputy sheriff. And now Prophet is running for his life . . . WITH A BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD Heading south of the border to Mexico, Prophet isn’t the only man marked for death. The young red-headed pistolero Colter Farrow has made an awful lot of enemies, too—and now practically every bounter hunter south of the Rio Grande is gunning for blood. For money. For fun. And, now, for Lou Prophet . . . “Here’s a writer with  hot, fast violence and the guts to write what he wants.” —Tom McNulty, Dispatches from the Last Outlaw

Bounty hunter Lou Prophet is caught in a deadly game of revenge when he joins forces with Louisa Bonaventure, "The Queen of Vengeance," to find ruthless outlaw Handsome Dave Duvall, the man who had murdered her family in cold blood. Original.

Bounty hunter Lou Prophet comes to the aid of a beautiful Russian countess who is searching for her sister who, after discovering buried treasure in Arizona, has mysteriously vanished. Original.

After capturing the members of the stage-robbing Thorson-Mahoney Gang, Lou Prophet and his partner, Louisa Bonaventure, take their quarry to the remote town of Bitter Creek in order to collect their reward only to find a town torn apart by violence, whose local lawmen have been hanged for arresting the son of Sam Scanlon. Original.

Saddle up for western action in this Lou Prophet, Bounty Hunter novel from Peter Brandvold. Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisa’s got him riding the brutal Mexican frontier chasing outlaws led by Tony Lazzaro, a notorious thief whose deadly weapon, Sugar Delphi, is a blind and blood-hungry pistolera. While Lou and Louisa hunt for Lazzaro, they’ve got two gangs hot on their tail: vicious Mojaves hungry for white hides, and Mexican Rurales hungry for gold. They’re not sure who’s more of a threat, but decide to keep their enemies closer by riding with the Rurales. In a true case of the blind leading the blind, Lou Prophet prays that this pursuit ends with him on the right end of a smoking pistol...

LOU PROPHET RIDES AGAIN IN A NEW E-BOOK EXCLUSIVE SHORT-STORY FROM MEAN PETE PRESS... The bounty hunter Lou Prophet wakes up in bed with a soiled dove to find a penciled note deposited in the dove’s cleavage. “We have the girl. If you want her back in one piece, ride to Santo Domingo Station.” Prophet rides out to the abandoned stage station to learn that his beautiful partner, Louisa Bonaventure--“The Vengeance Queen” herself--has been kidnapped and locked away in a snake-infested mine shaft. To get her out alive, Prophet must do a job for the kidnappers: Bring them the head of Melvin Badthunder! Can Prophet hunt down the savage border bandit in time to save his comely partner’s life? On the trail of Melvin Badthunder, Prophet rides to the little desert town of Muleville to find not only Badthunder but that, as always in a Mean Pete yarn, nothing is quite as it’s supposed to be... Excerpt: “Lou?” He had to turn one ear to the heavy door to hear Louisa behind it. “Yeah?” “Whatever those sonso’bitches want, don’t give it to ‘em. I’m just fine in here. All this peace and quiet is right welcoming after having spent the last two months looking at your ugly face and listening to your endless jawboning!” A hard knot welled in Prophet’s throat. Emotion rolled through him like a heavy ocean wave. Insulting though she was, her voice was music to his ears. Louisa. Prophet gritted his teeth and looked at the old man, who was gazing at Prophet and chuckling. The three younger men were chuckling, as well. And the next thing Prophet knew, he’d slammed his right fist against the old man’s right cheek. The old man screamed and hit the dirt like a two-ton bell dropped from a church tower...

Bounty hunter Lou Prophet takes on a corrupt town in this western from Peter Brandvold. While on the run from Rurales in Mexico, Lou Prophet stops at the familiar desert town of Chisos Springs. Except now it’s called Moon’s Well. And it appears that more than the name has changed. It’s being controlled by the scoundrel Mordecai Moon, who even charges people for water. Lou Prophet won’t stand for such shady business, but he’s never made an enemy like Mordecai... When Mordecai has Lou beaten and sends him into the blazing desert tied over his horse, matters go from bad to personal. Rescued by an old friend and business partner, Lou is ready to end Mordecai’s reign of terror. And with the outlaw’s own girlfriend straddling sides, Lou will make sure he goes out with a bang.

"Characters as explosive as forty-rod whiskey, and a plot that slams readers with the impact of a Winchester slug!"--Johnny D. Boggs, Spur Award-Winning Author Bounty Hunter Lou Prophet is stalking the notorious train robber Frank Beauregard, a man with as much conscience as a rattlesnake with a baby rabbit in its craw. This snake, however, has a woman in his craw—an innocent young woman who came west from Minnesota to be the mail-order bride of a lonely rancher. Miss Mattie Anderson finds her new home high in the Colorado Rockies far from what she’d expected. She finds her husband-to-be far from what she’d expected, as well. Why is his hired man so tongue-tied? Who’s the dead man in the shallow grave out back? As more dead are piled high and the lead flies like snowflakes in a prairie blizzard, Mattie begins to wonder if she hasn’t promised herself to the devil himself. Only Lou Prophet can save her from the ties that not only bind but threaten to hang her... From the book: Prophet walked over to where Dodd lay scowling up at the sky, the dust still sifting around him. The black man was breathing hard, grunting, blood oozing out of his mouth to form two thick streams down his chin. More blood welled from the two ragged holes in his pinstriped shirt, just beneath his red bandanna. His enraged, horrified eyes found Prophet. “Y-you just...killed two lawmen...and a federal tracker,” he told the bounty hunter, sneering. “Bullshit,” Prophet said, dropping to a knee to rummage around in the man’s pockets. “You’re no more lawman than I am, Roy.” He grinned as he pulled from the man’s vest pocket a rabbit’s foot with two small, gold keys attached to it by a slender chain. He held up the rabbit’s foot. “And your luck just ran out.”

TO HELL ON A FAST HORSE: A Western Duo Featuring Lou Prophet, Bounty Hunter Lock and load with bounty hunters Lou Prophet and the Vengeance Queen, Louisa Bonaventure, as they ride the hardest, bloodiest trails on the western frontier, on their relentless quest to bring the baddest of the western bad men--and women--to justice. THE DEVIL'S AMBUSH Lou Prophet and his sometime-sidekick, sometime-lover, Louisa Bonaventure, are lured to an old, abandoned cavalry outpost in southeast Colorado, and ambushed. Louisa is badly wounded. While the Vengeance Queen teeters on the edge of death, Prophet hunts the seven nightriders who tried to kick them both out with a cold shovel. In the meantime, he runs into a town teeming with scandalous secrets and seven devils who must pay for their sins in blood. BRING ME THE HEAD OF CHAZ SAVIDGE! Or, The Bounty Poachers A new kind of bounty hunter is infesting the west. Bounty hunters who steal the quarry of other hunters. Bounty poachers is what Lou Prophet calls them, and it's men of this seedy, back-shooting variety who shadow Prophet and Louisa as they try to get the notorious killer and rapist Chaz Savidge from Dakota Territory to Denver, where they intend to turn their prisoner into the Chief U.S. Marshal and collect the bounty on his head. But maybe Prophet's and Louisa's most formidable foe isn't among the countless men hunting them, after all. Maybe their most dangerous enemy is a young, grief-stricken pioneer widow whose husband and lover lie dead on her cabin floor.