Devil Wire / Brazos
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0312944365 / Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, December 2008
The arrival of barbed-wire fences sparks a vicious range war between ranchers over territory into which Montana newcomer Jim Hartford is swiftly thrust, in Devil Wire, and in Brazos, hoping to make peace with his sister, Jed Keller finds her dead and her Missouri ranch burned and sets out to catch those responsible for her murder. Original.
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Devil WireBy 1884, a new type of fencing called barbed wire—or, as ranchers deemed it, devil wire—is making more enemies than good neighbors in the American West. Jim Hartford, a failed farmer from Tennessee, is looking for a new beginning in Miles City, Montana. What he finds is a territorial disagreement that erupts in bloodshed. A local cattle baron has hired a renegade group of fence-cutters who turn out to be a band of grudge-holding murderers…and now it’s up to Jim to put his life on the line not only to avenge the death of his brother, but to save the woman he loves from the deadly barbs of hatred and greed.BrazosJed Keller has come to Cade, Texas to repay a debt to his sister, killed in a fire at her ranch. But from day one, Jed has been faced with mystery…and engaged in battle between vigilantes and a gang of cattle thieves. Jed had hoped, somewhere in the midst of all the violence, to build a new life. Now, to do it, he must unravel the legend of Old Boys, hunt down a stone-cold killer, and destroy the one man who know what really happened to Jed’s sister in the blood-soaked hill country by the rolling Brazos River...
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