Mr Scott Christensen

Kid Colter: Wrong End of His Guns (Volume 1) Mr Scott Christensen 1. izdevums

If you like the style of Louis L'Amour and Ralph Compton, you'll enjoy this novel. Soldiers ride into Jacksboro, Texas and issue a call for men to fight. Shots have already been fired at Fort Sumter and the upcoming war for Southern independence is expected to last three months. Winn Colter is only thirteen years old but steps forward to volunteer with the other men. When questioned about his age, he was told to go home and send his father to fight. That never sits well with a strong willed teenager. One way or another, he was going to fight! After waiting nearly two years, on his 15th birthday, Winn Colter kissed his Mother, mounted his horse and rode away to war without ever looking back. Even at his young age, Colter would prove to be a man of skill! On the frontier, a boy grew up with a gun in his hand almost before he learned to walk. In an area where the only justice rode on a man's own hip, he better have frontier savey or he would be missing his hair and might not survive. That was the way of the west! As the son of a gunsmith, Colter learned more than most boys and had a natural ability. Men that shot as well as Winn sometimes ended up on on the wrong side of the law or even dead. Before Winn goes off to war, he is warned about the dangers of reputations and he tries to heed the warnings. Colter is on a mission when he's forced to make a choice of follow orders and let a woman die or rescue her and run. It's a decision that could change his life. Later, clues to an old murder are revealed and Colter is faced with new challenges that put hidden talents back in action. There's unexpected twist and turns in his journey that will catch you by surprise. in the end you'll wonder how many men have to face the wrong end of Kid Colter's guns!