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  • Published: 15 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780451186317
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $17.99

The Dawn of Fury



A gunslinger gets bloody payback in this Ralph Compton Western.

A gunslinger gets bloody payback in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.

Nathan Stone experienced the horror of Civil War battlefields. But the worst lies ahead. When he returns to Virginia, to the ruins of what was his home, he discovers his father butchered and his mother and sister stripped, ravished, and slain. The seven renegades who did it rode away to the West. Half-starved and afoot, he takes to their trail. 

Nathan Stone’s deadly oath—blood for blood—will cost him seven long years, as he rides the lawless trails of an untamed frontier. His skill with a Colt will match him with the likes of the Jameses and the Youngers, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, and Ben Thompson. Nathan Stone will become the greatest gunfighter of them all, shooting his way along the most relentless vengeance trail a man has ever ridden to the savage end…and this is how it all begins.

More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

  • Published: 15 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780451186317
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $17.99

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Praise for The Dawn of Fury

Praise for Ralph Compton

“Compton writes in the style of popular Western novelists like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey...thrilling stories of Western legend.”—The Huntsville Times (AL) 

“The greatest Western writer of them all.... Very seldom in literature have the legends of the Old West been so vividly painted.”—The Tombstone Epitaph

“If you like Louis L'Amour, you'll love Ralph Compton.”—Quanah Tribune-Chief (TX)

“Compton offers readers a chance to hit the trail and not even end up saddle sore.”—Publishers Weekly