Hart the Regulator 8: John Wesley Hardin

by John B. Harvey

Overview

Wes Hart — ex-soldier, ex-Texas Ranger, ex-rider with Billy the Kid. He’s tough, ruthless and slick with a .45. He’s for hire now and he isn’t cheap. In the old West, gunfighting was a trade you started early. Wes Hart killed his first man when he was still in his teens and so did John Wesley Hardin. Hardin went on to carve himself a notch in the history books, if it’s a notch you merit when you’re an outlaw with all the virtues of a renegade rattlesnake. There’s a posse of Rangers who’ve marked Hardin down for the reckoning. Riding with them is Wes Hart, the Regulator...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151880084
Publisher:	Piccadilly Books, Limited
Publication date:	05/28/2015
Series:	A Hart the Regulator Western , #8
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	775,972
File size:	403 KB

About the Author

Initially a teacher of English and Drama, the novelist John Harvey began writing in 1975, and now has over 100 published books to his credit, most recently a collection of short stories, A Darker Shade of Blue, and a novel, Good Bait. The first of his celebrated Charlie Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century. Flesh and Blood, the first of three Frank Elder novels, was awarded both the British Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger and the US Barry Award in 2004. In 2007 he received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing, and in 2009 he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Nottingham. A published poet, John ran Slow Dancer Press for nearly twenty years; in addition, he has written many scripts for television and radio, including dramatisations of novels by Graham Greene and A.S. Byatt and (with Shelley Silas) Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet. John was one of the original 'Piccadilly Cowboys' and Piccadilly Publishing is proud to reissue his Herne the Hunter series, which was co-written with Laurence James under the name 'John J. McLaglen'.