Tip pointed out half-a-dozen other townspeople whose attention had been attracted by the confrontation between Frank and the would-be fast gun. The stranger looked around, his face growing taut with worry as he realized he was surrounded by hostility.
“So you see, mister,” Tip concluded, “when you go up against the marshal o’ Buckskin, one way or another you’re gonna wind up blowed full o’ holes. Don’t you reckon the smartest thing to do would be to climb back on that horse and ride outta here while you got the chance?”
The man hesitated, but only for a moment. Then he snarled, “You’re the luckiest hombre I ever saw, Morgan.” He grabbed his reins, swung up into the saddle, and rode out.
Frank watched him go and said, “Yeah. I reckon I sure am.”
About the Author
William W. Johnstone was born in Southern Missouri, the youngest of four children. Raised with strong moral values by his minister father, and well-tutored by his school teacher mother, William quit school when he was fifteen.
He was kicked out of the French Foreign Legion for being under age and joined the carnival. But still valuing his education, he returned home to finish his high school education in 1957.
Bill went on to work as a deputy sheriff, did a hitch in the army, and began a career in radio broadcasting, where he worked daily on his verbal and storytelling skills for the next sixteen years on the air.
Mr. Johnstone started writing in 1970, but it wasn't until late 1979 when The Devil's Kiss was published that William Johnstone became a full-time writer in 1980. Since that time Bill has written over two hundred books in a variety of genres including action, suspense, western, science fiction, and horror.
To the true William W. Johnstone reader, he is a best-selling author admired for the great diversity in his writing talents. Though most known for his western adventures, Johnstone was also a visionary writer.
His prophetic stories within his Ashes Series, Code Name Series, and his science fiction books, predicting the Gulf War and the political climate we live in today, was ahead of it’s time when it was written.
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