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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1997
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Jim Allison Western

Blood Canyon ()
Rattler Creek ()
Thunder Gorge ()

An O'Brien Western

Cold Steel ()
Hard as Nails ()
Hell for Leather ()
Marked for Death ()
Mean as Hell ()
Squaw Man ()
Gunsmoke Is Grey (Dec-1997)
Draw Down The Lightning (Sep-2008)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • The doctor told O'Brien he'd have to rest up for a couple of months before he could strap his Colt back on. Still, he had to earn a living, and he was grateful to the doc when he gave him a nice, quiet job across the territory. O'Brien and his new pa...



  • The greenhorn wants to hire Carter O'Brien. The trouble is, he has been sworn to secrecy about his own mysterious mission. Someone else knows about it though: two attempts have already been made on the greenhorn's life. O'Brien decides to tag along f...



  • The Texas Rangers sent Carter O'Brien south of the border with orders to kill a madman. It was said that his target - a murderous bandit named Salazar - had the face of an angel and the heart of a demon. Given the choice, he'd sooner have faced Salaz...



  • Freelance fighting man Carter O'Brien had five thousand reasons to go after the notorious Timberlake brothers. Each was a dollar bill. Isaac Parker, the 'Hanging Judge' himself had asked O'Brien to track down the murderous outlaws, so he rode west in...



  • Arizona Territory, 1882. The Apaches are running rings around the army, raiding, robbing and killing. Captain Nathan Kelso knows they must be confronted on their own terms, hitting fast and hard. But who'd listen to a washed-up, borderline drunk? How...



  • It might have been 1895, but the country around Singletree, Montana, was still as wild as ever ... The county had a problem with rustlers, and Cyrus McCall, who ran Big Sky, strung barbed wire between his land and that of his neighbor, Maggie Carter,...



  • When you've only got five shots left, you have to make each one count. Like the outlaw whose quest for revenge didn't quite go according to plan. Or the cowboy who ended up using a most unusual weapon to defeat his Cheyenne enemy. Then there was the ...



  • Carter O'Brien's gun is for hire, but only when the job - and the money - is right. As tough as they come, he's been everything from lawman to bounty hunter in his time. Right now he's riding shotgun on an expedition led by an old Army buddy. The goa...



  • BESTSELLING WESTERN WRITERS BEN BRIDGES AND BRENT TOWNS JOIN FORCES TO TELL THE BLISTERING ADVENTURES OF SEMINOLE-NEGRO SCOUT LEW EDEN!Lew Eden was thirteen when he killed his first man. A lot more died at his hand before he finally had his fill of b...






  • The mining town of King Creek sits in the heart of the Nevada goldfields. It has no law to speak of but Stover's Law - ruthlessly enforced by one greedy woman, her three callous sons, and a dozen hired gunmen. The Stover family is systematically flee...



  • It stood to be the biggest oil well in the territory ... provided wildcatter Bud Bishop could bring it in before his lease ran out. But the Irishman wanted to make sure he didn't. Then he figured to move in, take ownership and keep all the spoils of ...



  • Vernacular responses have been crucial for communities seeking creative ways to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. With most people locked down and separated from the normal ebb and flow of life for an extended period of time, COVID-19 inspired comm...



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    Professor Andrew Murray and his fellow scientists were not to go up into the Texas hill country to carry out weather tests unless they had someone trail-wise along to watch them. So the Government sent in the Wilde Boys, to play nursemaid. Then the b...



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    Jim Allison was delivering cattle to the Apaches up at San Carlos when a chance meeting with a man drew him into a violent chain of events from which there could only be one winner. Jim was no stranger to gunfights and ambushes, but he was older now,...



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    The choice was simple: Carter O''Brien could stick around Scot''s Post, California, and risk taking a bull et in the back from a bully-boy with a score to settle, or h e could ride up into the mountains on a mission of mercy. He chose the mountains. ...



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    MORE GUN-SWIFT ACTION FROM AMAZON KINDLE SIX-TIME NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WESTERN WRITER BEN BRIDGES!!Rancher Clint McNally was looking for someone to deliver $20,000 to the men who’d kidnapped his young son. Whoever took the job had to be as hard a...



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    '...a superb natural story-teller...' TWENTIETH-CENTURY WESTERN WRITERS. Ben Leyland's plan to run fifteen hundred horses up across the Staked Plains into New Mexico sounded impossible. The desert was furnace-hot at that time of year, and infested wi...



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    A case of mistaken identity marked O'Brien out for death the minute he rode into Nebraska. A feud had erupted between the local farmers and a scheming loan agent who figured to sell them out. Both sides pegged O'Brien as the vicious gunman named Wes ...



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    Eagle Creek was a nice, quiet little town - until the marshal lost his nerve. Then, suddenly, the county was torn apart by murder, rustling and the lynching of an innocent man. Folks said the Ginnanes - Big Vince and his five sons - were behind it al...






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    For more than ten years, Jim Allison packed a marshal's badge in the violent Indian Nations. He finally quit and moved to New Mexico to get into the cattle business. Then a vicious killer came along and shattered his peaceful existence. Turning manhu...



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    Coyote is a renegade Apache who's been butchering a trail along the border for months. But now, with both the US Army and his own people out for his blood, he's ready to retreat into the Sierra Madres - provided his wife is delivered safely to him wi...



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    Mexico was being torn apart by a revolution, but Jim Allison didn't give a damn - until the rebels crossed over onto American soil one night and made it personal. Jim saddled up and rode towards the border hell-bent on getting revenge on the men who'...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ben Bridges has published 23 books.

Ben Bridges does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Behind the Mask, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Ben Bridges, Gunsmoke Is Grey, was published in December 1997.

Yes. Ben Bridges has 2 series.