Ralph Compton West of the Law

Written by Ralph Compton and Joseph A. West

Narrated by Pete Bradbury

A towering legend among chroniclers of the OldWest, Ralph Compton penned searing tales of the highest entertainment. In this fast-paced actioner, Detective Sergeant JohnMcBride gets while the gettin's good when a New York gangster puts a price on his head. But after landing in High Hopes, Colorado, McBride quickly finds that his troubles with the criminal sect are just beginning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: May 29, 2009
• ISBN: 9781440718953

Ralph Compton

Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.