The Gunsmith Books
Ex-lawman Clint Adams makes his living as a traveling gun trader, a job which takes him all over the West. In a sleepy Missouri town he finds a trio of beautiful women who will do anything—pay any price—to be reunited with their former "protector," Con Macklin. The Gunsmith agrees to take them to him and rides out on the dirty and dangerous trail to Mexico. He delivers the women but faces an army of hardcases led by Macklin—who wants his women back and The Gunsmith dead.
Black Wind, Arizona is torn apart with prejudice and hatred, fueled by the greed of a ruthless town boss and his hired gunslicks. A nearby colony of Chinese immigrants, the hapless victims of violence, turn to Clint Adams for help. A lovely Oriental enchantress persuades him to join her people—and to share her bedroll. So The Gunsmith will train the Chinese laborers in the art of Western warfare, until he discovers he has his own score to settle with the wild town.
On the cold trail of a woman he loved many years ago. The Gunsmith finds the going gets hotter as he gets closer to finding her. His search takes him to the explosive Rancho Soto, a huge spread in New Mexico. The old flame is now married to the powerful ranch owner, though she hasn't forgotten Clint Adams—and that's the start of big trouble for him. Roped into a range war, caught between his lover and the rancher's hot-blooded daughter. The Gunsmith will have to kill if he wants to get out of there alive.
The Gunsmith’s old friend, Bill Hickok, controls Abilene, Kansas with a tight fist and a fast gun, brooking challenge by no man. But even the legendary Wild Bill needs a hand when the James brothers, John Wesley Hardin, Phil Coe, and Ben Thompson converge on the town at once. Clint Adams takes Hickok’s side—but not before a sexy lady saloonkeeper gets into the act, and into The Gunsmith’s bed. She does her level best to make him stay on for good. But Adams is too busy dodging bullets and backing up Wild Bill to let a woman tie him down.
Wyatt Earp was a young buffalo hunter when he and The Gunsmith teamed up for card-playing in Caldwell, Kansas. And there they met another youngster named Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson, who showed great promise as a gunslick. And that was just the start of hard times for the trio. The town of Caldwell turned on them with hot lead, calling them "no-good" killers. Only one person, The Gunsmith's girl, stood by the three men in their darkest hour-when their guns would buy them either glory or death.
Tracking down the killer of his old partner, The Gunsmith rides to a crossroads town in New Mexico. He has to duck hot lead all the way to the saloon before he can enjoy a drink and the favors of the fanciest female this side of the Rio Grande. To get to the bottom of his friend’s death, he lets the town fathers talk him into turning lawman once again— which only brings a host of enemies out of the woodwork. Luckily, his lady sticks by him, but The Gunsmith will need more than good loving to survive in this violence-hungry hamlet where paid gunfighters outnumber the “good citizens” two to one.
Bad blood is boiling up between rival Texas and Mexican ranchers when The Gunsmith rides into the Rio Grande cattle country. And both sides target him as a troublemaking rustler. Luckily, a cattleman’s daughter takes him in, saving his hide from the warring clans. But Clint Adams won’t hide behind a woman’s skirts when his name needs to be cleared—and when there’s gun—work to be done.
The gunsmith pursues a deadly halfbreed and a desperate girl! Quanah Parker—half-white, half-Comanche—is raising hell in Texas. Someone is selling the renegade rifles, and The Gunsmith becomes the prime suspect. Eluding the Army, chancing a confrontation with the blood-hungry halfbreed, Clint Adams rides out to save himself from hanging, and to bring back the one girl who can clear his name.
It should have been easy: all Clint Adams, The Gunsmith, had to do was take a riverboat down to New Orleans and deliver a small package for President Grant. The trip starts out perfectly: gambling when he wants it and the bed of a luscious lady when he's had enough of cards. But when they get to New Orleans, the lady disappears. From the city's grand hotels to its dangerous back streets, The Gunsmith searches for some clue to the whereabouts of the missing woman, and at the same time dodges the bullets aimed at him by a group of men whose political passions are interfering with his lusty ones.
Prizefights and beautiful women spell danger for the The Gunsmith! Down on his luck. The Gunsmith enters the boxing business to make some money. He signs on a young fighter whose smart and sassy sister wants to push the kid to the top. But Clint Adams quickly finds himself on the ropes—promoting a reluctant pugilist, battling the lady for control of the action, and putting together an explosive match-up that promises nothing but trouble.
Palmerville, Wyoming had a good lawman. Marshal Dale Leighton. At least, he was good until he lost an arm in a gunfight. Hearing he was in trouble, Clint Adams, The Gunsmith, rode hard for the town, vowing to help his friend. And help he does, teaching Leighton to use his left hand and training him until the marshal is better with his new gunhand than he ever was with his old. But soon The Gunsmith sees something else... Leighton has turned vicious and uses his deadly new skill even when there's no call to. The Gunsmith has to turn against his old friend to help the town... and one of the first people to get his help is Lisa Lancaster—an inexperienced girl who learns fast.
A woman, a hot meal, a hand of poker—that's all the Gunsmith is after when he rides into Montana. But there's no rest for this living legend of the six-gun. When a band of renegade U.S. soldiers plot to rob the payroll of the Northwest Mounted Police, the Gunsmith is enlisted in the fight to save the loot. Gunpowder chokes the air, and blood spills on the street. The Gunsmith just reckons to make sure that it's his powder, and the other man's blood!
Clint rode into Two Queens, Nevada, looking forward to the high stakes poker game. They were all invited players, the game should be straight, and he knew there'd be women available... one, a beautiful brunette, was even in the game. But then the players began to die, one by one, and The Gunsmith had to dig down deep to meet the ante...
Wild Bill Hickok is in his grave, the victim of a coward's bullet in the back. And the Gunsmith, shocked and dismayed over his close friend's death, travels to Deadwood seeking the truth—and vengeance. But the truth proves to be mighty hard to come by as Wild Bill, even in his grave, still has some dangerous enemies. Luckily for Clint Adams, he also has some powerful friends determined to even the score...
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Buckskin' Frank Leslie is a small, wiry man with twin Peacemakers that blaze faster than most men can blink an eye. And it's a lucky thing for Clint Adams when Buckskin Frank jumps into a gunfight on his side—leaving four unlucky hombres dead on the barroom floor. The Gunsmith always repays a favor. But this time it lands him in big trouble with the town banker—and a different kind of trouble with the banker's daughter!
When Clint Adams is hired to help take care of a band of rustlers, it looks like it should be a piece of cake. Not only is rancher Alfred Jarrad paying a nice salary, but his daughter Sylvia is offering a special bonus of her own. But the Gunsmith quickly discovers that there's more to this job than rounding up rustlers as he finds himself thrown into the middle of a bloody silver war.
Lancaster, Texas, is a town without a lawman—the last sheriff fled from a gang that vowed to destroy the town. Clint Adams won't pin on the star, but there is one man eager to take the job. Only problem is, the young ranch hand doesn't know a thing about the lawman business. So the Gunsmith takes Pat Garrett under his wing—just in time for a showdown with the bloodthirsty Chambers gang.
When a gang of ruthless bandidos kidnap wealthy Andrew Woodland's daughter, he turns to Clint Adams for help. Adams agrees to go south of the border to rescue the girl. But between hostile Yaqui Indians and corrupt Rurales, the odds are stacked against the Gunsmith. His only allies are some frightened peónes and a hot-blooded senorita with a score of her own to settle. And unless he can turn them into a fighting unit, the Gunsmith will be lucky to get out of Mexico alive!
Dodge City is as wild a town as they come. In fact, when Clint Adams comes riding in, things are pretty much out of control. Young Deputy Sheriff Bill Tilghman is trying his darndest, but it will take a pack of lawmen to tame this town. A frightened mayor sends for help and the Dodge City Gang responds to the call. Tilghman, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, his brother Ed Masterson, and Neal Brown—they're the best in the business, and they're ready for action. And of course, the Gunsmith will be where the action is!
British zoologist Edward Wardell and his beautiful assistant have come to northern California in search of the Sasquatch, America's version of the abominable snowman. Clint Adams thinks they're crazy—until he sees one himself! He hires on as Wardell's troubleshooter. With a pair of bounty hunters on his tail and hostile Indians waiting to pounce, the Gunsmith is faced with the most bizarre challenge of his life as he tries to outwit an inhuman opponent!
Sheriff Jack Tyler has a habit of looking the other way when there's trouble in Tylerville—but maybe that's because his old man happens to own the town. And maybe that's why they're none too happy when deputy Joe Bags decides to run against Tyler in the next election. Clint Adams comes to the aid of his old friend, agreeing to watch his back until the elections are over. But with Bags watching out for the Tylers, and the Gunsmith watching out for Bags, there's no one left to watch out for the Gunsmith—except the pretty and agreeable daughter of old Zack Tyler himself!
New Orleans is a town for high living and high rolling. But the Gunsmith's easy life comes to an abrupt end when he joins up with Henri Duboir to fight a French Quarter crime syndicate. The gang is vicious, lowdown and playing for keeps. Fortunately for Clint Adams, Duboir has a son who can out-fence and out-box the meanest thugs—and an eye for the ladies that matches the Gunsmith's own!
"Ol' Three-Paw" has a price on his head bigger than most outlaws. But this "outlaw" is a killer grizzly so murderous that he makes the James Gang look like the Salvation Army. The Gunsmith joins the hunt for the reward money. But before Clint Adams can catch "Ol' Three-Paw" he has to tame Lacy Blake, a dark-haired lady who will hunt anyone or anything for the right price—and considers herself a match for any man!
Someone is trying to kill President Grant, and Clint Adams is drafted to track down the would-be assassin. The trail leads to faraway Alaska where the Gunsmith meets and falls in love with beautiful Joanna Morgan. Clint just about forgets his mission until the assassin gets Joanna into his sights. Now the Gunsmith picks up the trail with renewed vigor and a new motive!
Bank robberies are common in the Idaho territory. But when the Wido bank is robbed, and a deputy is found dead with a strange puncture wound, that is unusual. For once, Clint Adams vows not to get involved as he moves on with his traveling gunsmith shop. But when the Gunsmith meets a beautiful young girl who is fleeing for her life, all his resolve vanishes. The girl has a bizarre tale to tell about a circus run by an Italian master criminal. And before he knows it, the Gunsmith is up against the strangest band of outlaws the West has ever seen!
Clint Adams heads for San Francisco, hoping to combine business with pleasure. The pleasure side looks up when he discovers a beautiful Chinese woman waiting in his hotel room. But the pleasure ends abruptly when a martial arts expert knocks Clint unconscious. The Gunsmith awakens with a lump on his head and a dead girl in his bed. It looks like Clint has walked right into the middle of the Yellow Serpent Tongs deadly criminal dealings—now the Gunsmith must clear himself of murder and crush the Tong if he ever hopes to leave San Francisco alive!
On the Wyoming range, a good horse is a man's best friend. But for Clint Adams, the big black named Duke is more like his partner. So it's no surprise that when a wealthy Texas rancher offers a ton of money for Duke, the Gunsmith turns him down flat. When Clint is knocked unconscious and Duke disappears, he has a good idea who is to blame. The Gunsmith heads for Texas and a showdown with the rancher, but to no avail: Duke has vanished. With the aid of the thief's daughter, Clint tracks him to the wild herds of the panhandle—not knowing if he'll ever see his "partner" again!
Things start getting too hot for Clint Adams after he's forced to gun down a young tough who tried to outdraw him. To get away from it all for a while, the Gunsmith jumps at an offer to go to South America—and capture a deadly jaguar that is terrorizing the local ranchers. But Clint soon discovers that there is more than one wildcat on the loose as he tangles with a fiery senorita and gets snared by the eager daughter of another!
They called it Battles Mountain, but it belonged more to the bank than to the Battles family. Now, they have to get their timber down the mountain fast enough to stop the bank from reclaiming the land. Clint Adams is just passing through North Dakota, but when the Battles brothers help him out in a fight, the Gunsmith feels obliged to return the favor—especially since they have a big, good- looking sister. Helping to fend off the unscrupulous "banker," Clint comes head to head with a gunslinger out to make his reputation—over Clint's dead body!
Rufus King has made a lot of enemies—and he deserves them all. Now, three of them are on his trail ready to dish out their own brand of frontier justice. Clint Adams is after King because King bushwhacked the Gunsmith and wounded his horse, Duke. But the Gunsmith is not alone as he joins up with a Chinese master of the martial arts and a black gunman on a dangerous trail of revenge...
What kind of men trample a little girl to death? Only the worst kind of low-down, subhuman varmints—and that's why Clint Adams agrees to join a posse to track down the gang of murdering bank robbers. But with a posse made up of a resentful deputy and merchants who don't know one end of a gun from another, the Gunsmith is in for a lot more trouble than he bargained for—especially when he realizes that the gang is heading for the one town in the West no lawman has ever entered!
The Texas Rangers are after a bandido who is as deadly and dangerous as his namesake, the dreaded gila monster. Gila has been raiding Texas ranches, rustling, raping and murdering. The Gunsmith is recruited to track him south of the border where the Rangers have no authority. There he confronts the bandit, whose armor breastplate and metal gauntlets with steel spikes make him the strangest and most awesome foe Clint has ever battled...
In Prophecy, there's a slim redhead with a sensuous face. In Jericho, a big, brash, sexy blonde. And in Jory, an Indian girl with hair as black as a raven's wing. Clint Adams has had his share of gorgeous women before, but never three beautiful bounty hunters, each willing to do anything to enlist his help. The last thing the Gunsmith wants is to ride out on another hunt—but after all, how many times can you say no to three beautiful ladies?
There are more ways to get into trouble than ways to get out on the San Francisco waterfront. It's no wonder then that Clint Adams reluctantly agrees to keep a mysterious appointment at the Black Pearl Saloon. There, the Gunsmith finds two old friends, private detectives John Chang and Sam Wing, who inform him that the lovely lady Clint is supposed to meet has disappeared—kidnapped by the Black Pearl Tong. Now the Gunsmith's worst fears start to come true: he's fighting for his life in the deadly maze of San Francisco's Chinatown...
They call it Paradise but it's more like Hell for the women held captive in this small Oklahoma town. The Harlow gang has discovered that females are worth their weight in gold—when you sell them to brothels and women-starved mining towns. Clint Adams teams up with an old acquaintance, Marcel Duboir, to rescue the damsels in distress. It's a tough job, even for experts like the Gunsmith and his pal. But the rewards, especially of the female kind, are great—if they can manage to stay alive!
El Paso has long been a battleground for the Anglos and the Mexicans, and now the war is heating up in the salt beds near Guadalupe Peak. When Clint Adams rides unsuspectingly into the crossfire, the last thing he wants is to get involved. But a pretty young miss wins Clint's affections—and lands the Gunsmith right in the middle of a fight for his life!
King Fisher practically owns the Nueces Strip along the Rio Grande. And he keeps control of his empire by hiring desperate men from both sides of the border. Riding through the town of Eagle Pass, it doesn't take Clint Adams long to run afoul of Fisher's men, killing one and wounding another. Now the Gunsmith has a choice: leave town with the tag "coward" plastered on his back—or stay and face more trouble than one man has ever known...
Any man would be thrilled to find out he has a long-lost son—or would he? What if that "son" turns out to be a merciless killer who guns down men for the fun of it? That's the dilemma facing Clint Adams when he learns that a young gunman named John Adams is claiming to be his son. The Gunsmith follows a trail of bodies as he sets out to confront the boy—and his own past. It's one showdown the Gunsmith can't afford to lose...
War is exploding all along the Powder River in Wyoming. It's a bitter, bloody war between the big cattlemen and the "little" cowboys. The cowboys' strike for better conditions has failed and now the cattlemen are taking their brutal revenge. Into the crossfire rides Clint Adams. The Gunsmith despises the things that are being done in the name of the law—especially when the beautiful young daughter of a strike leader is hurt by them. Clint joins forces with legendary range detective Heck Thomas—and the odds start looking better for the cowboys...
Clint Adams has had a number of strange assignments in his time, but none more unusual than acting as a bodyguard for a Japanese ambassador—and a prized statue of the Golden Horseman. As the train bearing Clint and the Japanese delegation travels cross-country, outlaws, enemy samurai and ninja assassins are all determined to claim the Horseman. The Gunsmith and the ambassador's samurai escort face incredible odds in an East meets West adventure that tests the Gunsmith's skills with the ultimate challenge of survival!
Lots of boys dream about being gunfighters, but when the kid brother of a pretty Irish woman picks up his six-shooter in earnest, Clint Adams is forced to get involved. The Gunsmith is asked to find the boy and convince him to give himself up. But before he can do that, Clint meets an incredibly beautiful young woman named Scarlet who is gunning for a rancher the kid has been hired to protect. Now, the Gunsmith's good deed has drawn him into a dangerous crossfire—one from which he'll be lucky to get out alive!
It is supposed to be a festive occasion—the wedding of an old friend. And Clint Adams is supposed to be the best man—until the bride and groom are murdered on the night before their wedding. Now, instead of attending a wedding, the Gunsmith is tracking down a chindi—the Navaho version of a werewolf. But this chindi is a man, cunning, savage, deadly, but still a man. Clint must find the chindi and destroy him—if the wolf witch doesn't find him first...
The rumors are flying in Leadville—Hickok is still alive! The way the story goes, somebody else, and not Wild Bill, was killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood. Clint Adams isn't one to put much stock in rumors...but he's never actually seen Bill's body and he can't swear that Hickok is dead. Besides, the Gunsmith and Wild Bill were great friends and if there's a chance that Hickok is alive, it's worth the trip down to Mexico to find out. Will the Gunsmith find Wild Bill alive, will he find an impostor—or will he find Wild Bill's ghost?
King Cleaver and his Sutro Mining Corporation owned everything in Virginia City—except the beautiful Tessa O'Grady and her rich mining claim. Cleaver was desperate to have both. Then the Gunsmith stepped in. Tessa offered Clint full partnership if he would operate the mine and give her protection. It was an offer the Gunsmith couldn't refuse... even if it made him the Most Wanted Man in Nevada.
As far as Clint Adams is concerned, having a reputation is bad enough, so when he finds out that The Legend of the Gunsmith is selling like hotcakes he hightails it to New York to track down the author. He's not disappointed when he learns it's someone from his past—a very attractive female someone. But before he can convince her to lay aside her pen... she's dead. Now the Gunsmith has to hunt down a killer in dangerously unfamiliar territory—the streets of New York City!
An urgent letter from Clint Adams' old friend in Raton, New Mexico, triggered an avalanche of trouble for the Gunsmith. First a sexy young widow made him a target for marriage. And then a savage gunman horse-napped Clint's trusty gelding, Duke. And to make things worse, his buddy's foolhardy son challenged the Gunsmith to a showdown. It was a mess of trouble, and Clint Adams had to do some fancy shooting, hard loving, and quick thinking to stay on his feet. But it was staying alive that had him worried.
Sometimes the tall tales of the Old West are true. Or at least that's what Clint Adams maintains as he tells the story of how he met legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok. It seems the Gunsmith wandered into the middle of a bitter confrontation between Hickok and the man who betrayed him and stole his girl. It was time for a shoot-out. And with the teamwork of two expert marksmen, a legend was born. News-hungry reporters were taking notes and history was in the making. The West would never be the same...