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Texas Vendetta

Texas Rangers seriesbook 5 of 8Next:Hard Trail to Follow(2008) →

In this fifth volume of his Texas Rangers series, Elmer Kelton takes the young ranger Andy Pickard, once a Comanche captive called Badger Boy, into the midst of a bloody vendetta between hate-filled families. Pickard and ranger Farley Brackett, a former Confederate soldier, are assigned to deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to the sheriff of a neighboring county to stand trial for killing a man named Ned Hopper but from the outset the seemingly simple assignment gets complicated. The Landon and Hopper families are in a blood feud; the Landons are gathering to free Jayce, and the Hoppers are gathering to kill him.

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Filled with the author's always engaging characters and set in the historically accurate backdrop of post-Civil War Texas, Texas Vendettachronicles the pinnacle era of the legendary Texas Rangers.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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