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O'Brien 2: Hard as Nails
MORE GUN-SWIFT ACTION FROM AMAZON KINDLE 21-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 as nails, so professional fighting man Carter O’Brien was the natural choice. Still, McNally knew better than to trust that kind of money to one man, so he gave O’Brien a partner – a one-eyed, cigar-chewing soldier of fortune called Logan Tyree. There was just one problem; Tyree hated O’Brien’s guts because of something that had happened nine years earlier … Right from the start O’Brien had his doubts about the job, but this time even he couldn’t guess what lay ahead for them. There were men willing to risk everything for a share of that money, and with the promise of more where that came from, he and Tyree were soon following a trail of cross and double-cross all the way to the hellish swamps of the Big Thicket …
91 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1987
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Ben Bridges
124 books9 followersFor as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a writer, but it was my Dad, Henry Whitehead, who really fostered my interest in the west. As a security man employed by a large chemical company, he often found himself working the nightshift by himself, and to pass the long, lonely hours he would hand-copy pictures from old Buffalo Bill Annuals and then fetch them home for me to colour in.
During the day, Dad also made up western stories and dictated them into our old reel-to-reel tape recorder, so that I could listen to them when I got home from school. He even added sound effects as he went along, wiggling his fingers in a bowl of water to give the impression of outlaws fording a shallow stream, or bursting balloons to simulate gunfire. So it's really no wonder that I eventually developed such an interest in the west.
As I grew older, I started reading just about every western I could lay my hands on. I began with J T Edson's Floating Outfit novels and eventually moved on to the Larry and Stretch westerns of Marshall Grover (a.k.a. Leonard F Meares). Along the way, I also started writing westerns of my own, the adventures of Clint Jones, Railroad Detective, being among the earliest.
During the day, Dad also made up western stories and dictated them into our old reel-to-reel tape recorder, so that I could listen to them when I got home from school. He even added sound effects as he went along, wiggling his fingers in a bowl of water to give the impression of outlaws fording a shallow stream, or bursting balloons to simulate gunfire. So it's really no wonder that I eventually developed such an interest in the west.
As I grew older, I started reading just about every western I could lay my hands on. I began with J T Edson's Floating Outfit novels and eventually moved on to the Larry and Stretch westerns of Marshall Grover (a.k.a. Leonard F Meares). Along the way, I also started writing westerns of my own, the adventures of Clint Jones, Railroad Detective, being among the earliest.
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May 4, 2020
A BB. Southern Arizona/Mexico Western Action Adventure (HAN) (AOWB - 2)
BB.has penned a Southern Arizona/Mexico western action adventure titled, "Hard as Nails", which begins with 0'Brien being approached by a rancher to deliver the $20 thousand dollar ransom for the return of his son. O'Brien accepts the mission and finds a partner to assist. What the two men did npt know was the boy was kidnapped by his Mother in a custody suit in filing for divorce. O'Brien and his partner deliver the ransom and then the Mother and her helpers try to take the boy from them. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
BB.has penned a Southern Arizona/Mexico western action adventure titled, "Hard as Nails", which begins with 0'Brien being approached by a rancher to deliver the $20 thousand dollar ransom for the return of his son. O'Brien accepts the mission and finds a partner to assist. What the two men did npt know was the boy was kidnapped by his Mother in a custody suit in filing for divorce. O'Brien and his partner deliver the ransom and then the Mother and her helpers try to take the boy from them. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
June 1, 2020
I have been reading Ben's books with the man named O'Brien. I have read several and started in the middle book 14 or something like that and have now gone back to the beginning of this series. I have one open now to start. Love Westerns and Ben Bridges has become one of my favorite authors.. Eaach book that I have read so far has received five stars.
November 26, 2016
DOUBLECROSSED
KIDNAPPING,KIDNAPPING one of the many horrific crimes that occur. But this is a strange kidnapping which involves one of the parents is the perpetrator. Clint McNally the father of the arranged kidnapping, hires O'Brien and Tyree, solders of fortune to handle the return of his son.
Clint McNally, a wealthy rancher and his wife, who was filing for divorce from her husband who adored her, but put his money making businesses before his family. The wife had enough and went to stay with her parents in Dallas with their son David. The so was kidnapped from his grandparents back yard..Loads, loads of actions a lot of different shady characters. Heartache, but not the kind your thinking about. Convicts escaping from prison...Don't want to give away all the details..read for yourselves and read what's going on..
KIDNAPPING,KIDNAPPING one of the many horrific crimes that occur. But this is a strange kidnapping which involves one of the parents is the perpetrator. Clint McNally the father of the arranged kidnapping, hires O'Brien and Tyree, solders of fortune to handle the return of his son.
Clint McNally, a wealthy rancher and his wife, who was filing for divorce from her husband who adored her, but put his money making businesses before his family. The wife had enough and went to stay with her parents in Dallas with their son David. The so was kidnapped from his grandparents back yard..Loads, loads of actions a lot of different shady characters. Heartache, but not the kind your thinking about. Convicts escaping from prison...Don't want to give away all the details..read for yourselves and read what's going on..
January 22, 2017
Hard As Nails
What a great book. It has a lot of action and compassion in it. O'Brien is a man of his word so when he tells you something you can trust him. I really like these books on O'Brien. Thank you Ben Bridges for a great read.
What a great book. It has a lot of action and compassion in it. O'Brien is a man of his word so when he tells you something you can trust him. I really like these books on O'Brien. Thank you Ben Bridges for a great read.
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