Assassin's Witness

by Paul Colt

Overview

Two powerful railroads clash in a dispute over the Royal Gorge right-of-way to serve a valuable silver strike in Colorado. The dispute pits railroad magnet Stephen Atkins against reclusive financier Eli Chorus, various Pinkerton agents, the Knights of Labor, and Don Victor Carnicero's El Anillo crime syndicate assassins. When Great Western Detective League operative Beau Longstreet breaks up the Chorus assassination he becomes the assassin's witness. Don Victor vows vengeance. El Anillo operatives threaten Longstreet's life and the life of his love. Assassin's Witness careens from violent confrontation to diabolical treachery in a deadly hail of bullets shrouded in mystery and tainted in loss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798892990240
Publisher:	Hat Creek
Publication date:	05/13/2025
Series:	Great Western Detective League , #4
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Paul Colt's critically-acclaimed historical fiction crackles with authenticity. His analytical insight, investigative research, and genuine horse sense bring history to life in dramatizations that entertain and inform. Paul's Great Western Detective League series does action-adventure western style. Grasshoppers in Summer and Friends Call Me Bat are Western Writers of America Spur Award honorees. Grasshoppers in Summer received Will Rogers Medallion Award recognition. Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory received the Marilyn Brown Novel Award, presented by Utah Valley University. Reviewers recognize Paul's lively, fast-paced style, complex plots, and touches of humor. Readers say, "Pick up a Paul Colt book, you can't put it down."Paul lives in Wisconsin with his wife and high school sweetheart, Trish.