Jerry S. Drake

A Tom Patterson Western

Breaking Trail (Feb-2011)

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  Sierra Skullduggery
  

  • Jul-2008
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  In the sequel to The Gunfighter's Apprentice, former gunfighter Tom Patterson and his wife Betty are drawn into a scheme of assassination and avarice in 1880s California. Patterson seeks to find and warn the proposed victim of a failed murder attempt...

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  Aftermath
  

  • Jan-2010
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  Mitch Ellsworth wants a new, uneventful life. With a history that includes Civil War service with the notorious Quantrill raiders, post-war banditry and a consequential stretch in a Missouri prison, he hopes to put his past behind him. Responding to ...

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  Breaking Trail
  

  • Feb-2011
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  A Tom Patterson Western
  

  Abandoned in childhood in pre-Civil War Texas, Tom Patterson grows up tough, wily and, surprisingly good-natured. These traits serve him well as a conscript cavalryman in the Confederate Army. His courage in combat and his resourcefulness in dangerou...

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  Southbound
  

  • Feb-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  Serving life in a Colorado penitentiary for crimes he did not commit, Kevin Mathias dreams of the impossible - getting away to a sanctuary country in South America! In the dead of winter, when a bizarre and perilous breakout opportunity briefly appea...

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  Schooner
  

  • Aug-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  Inheriting a luxurious charter yacht in the Caribbean seems to portend a wondrous and exhilarating new career for Glenn Hathaway, an innocuous young landlubber stuck in the monotony of a dull, uneventful existence. However, as he boards the ship of h...

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  Treasure Canyon
  

  • Aug-2016
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  TREASURE CANYON "Could someone write a western version of Treasure Island?" was the question. "Not exactly," was the response, "but it is a challenge to try!" Admittedly 'borrowing' some characters, emotional relationships, and the treasure-seeking p...

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