The Raptors

Book Details

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Author(s):

Ray Hogan

First Pub:

1979

Genre(s):

Western

First Read:

2024

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

24 chapters

Internal ID:

13805

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

...for my wife, Lois, a wondrous
lady beyond compare...

First Sentence:

Off to the left on a mound of barren ground, a prairie dog broke the stillness with its sharp, querulous bark.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Mungor realized that with his last conscious thoughts as he stared up at the lawman standing over him.

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Added: 29-Jan-2024

Last Updated: 24-Mar-2024

04-Mar-1980

Signet

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

04-Mar-1980

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.75

Pages*:

154

Catalog ID:

E 9124

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 17 Mar 2024 - 23 Mar 2024

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33445

Publisher:

Signet

ISBN:

0-451-09124-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-451-09124-6

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

THE KILLING TRAIL

Astride his gelding, Deputy Ben Houston made a solitary silhouette riding the stark plains of Kansas. Ahead of him in the vast country rode a gang of murderous outlaws who had slashed their savage way from Montana to Wyoming to Colorado, and now they were shooting up Kansas. Where would the killers strike next?

Soon they would have to make a slip-up, and Ben had to be there, anticipating their every move, in order to stop them....

RAY HOGAN was born in Missouri but has spent most of his life in New Mexico. His father was an early Western marshal and lawman, and Hogan himself has spent a lifetime researching the West. He has written over 100 books, including DEAD GUN, THE GLORY TRAIL, OVERKILL AT SADDLE ROCK, THE PEACE KEEPER, THE SHOTGUNNER, and 24 titles in the bestselling Shawn Starbuck series, all available in Signet paperback. His work has been filmed, televised, and translated into six languages.

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Notes and Comments:

First Signet Printing, March, 1980
First printing based on the number line

04-Mar-1980
Signet
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

Ray Hogan
Birth: 15 Dec 1908 Willow Springs, Missouri, USA
Death: 14 Jul 1998

Notes:

Ray Hogan was born in Willow Springs, Missouri but moved to New Mexico with his parents at the age of 5. Before he began his writing career, Hogan worked as a truck salesman, a bookkeeper and a tire store manager. Hogan took a correspondence journalism course as well as some English courses and began to write short stories for magazines in the U.S. as well as Germany and Czechoslovakia. He finally got his break into writing as a regular contributor to sports journals such as Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Hunting and Fishing, and others. Hogan's first novel, Ex-Marshall, was published in 1956. In his thirty years as an author, Hogan has written 142 novels, 200 articles and 25 short stories.

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