A Few Dead Men

What some reviewers have to say about Van Holt’s writing:



“Step aside Louis L'Amour, another great Western writer is here…”  --Heather



“I had a feeling that Van Holt…might actually be the successor to Zane Gray, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation.”  --Stern0



A FEW DEAD MEN


Wearing a badge and a Colt .45, Ben Cobbett had tamed some of the wildest towns in  the West. When he stopped in the isolated desert town of Rockville to give himself and his tired horse a little rest, he wasn’t looking for another wild town to tame. But an old rancher wanted him to clean out a gang of vicious outlaws and rustlers who had ruined the old man’s daughter and run off most of his stock. What were a few dead men to a gunslinging town tamer like Ben Cobbett?

The bad ones weren’t afraid of Cobbett. They thought it would be fun to have him around, so they killed his horse to keep him from leaving. They soon learned that it was no fun at all to have Ben Cobbett around.

And it turned out to be more than a few dead men. When you got a man like Ben Cobbett started killing men who laughed at the law and everything that was right and decent, it was hard to get him stopped before he sent them all to hell where they belonged.


WARNING: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a  horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by reading another Van Holt western. 

Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.