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    Ghost Rifle
    Ghost Rifle
    Ghost Rifle
    Audiobook11 hours

    Ghost Rifle

    Written by Max McCoy

    Narrated by James Babson

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    About this audiobook

    Three-time Spur Award winner Max McCoy combines fast-paced action, frontier history, and powerful family drama in this epic saga of life, love, and death in the American west.

    SEARCHING FOR A GHOST, A LEGEND, AND A DREAM …

    Descended from a long line of ramblers and rogues, Jack Picaro came to America to seek his fortune. But after killing his best friend in a drunken duel, the apprentice gunsmith flees westward, leaving behind children he does not know, Gus and April. As Jack ventures up the Missouri River, he finds an unspoiled land where a man can live free—and also be attacked by an Arikara war party. His rifle stolen in the bloody skirmish, Jack sets out alone to reclaim it. His wild escapade ends in a fight to the death with a legendary Crow warrior named Standing Wolf. So begins a fateful epic search across the last frontiers of the untamed West. From the muddy banks of the Mississippi to the shining peaks of the Rockies, Jack Picaro will leave a trail of clues for an abandoned son, Gus, to find him: a famous gunsmith who will make history with a weapon of his own design—and forged a legend that would be passed down for generations. This is the story of …

    THE GHOST RIFLE
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    ISBN9781705026632
    Ghost Rifle

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