Dead for a Dollar

Firestick #3

by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

Johnstone Justice. Making the West wild again.

Keeping the peace in a West Texas town like Buffalo Peak should be easy for a legendary frontiersman like Marshal Elwood "Firestick" McQueen. He’s got his longtime buddies "Beartooth" Skinner and "Moosejaw" Hendricks as his deputies—not to mention the famous rifle that earned him his nickname. But when Firestick learns that their ornery old friend “Rip” Ripley just rode into town, all bets are off. It’s darn near impossible to keep the peace when Rip’s specialty is disturbing it. Firestick finds a decade-old wanted poster for Rip—the reward is one dollar.

Firestick uses it to toss Rip into the clink till he decides to leave town. But Ripley’s still up to his old tricks—he has a new gang of cutthroats coming to Buffalo Peak to steal a king’s ransom in gold in the town bank. Firestick, Beartooth, and Moosejaw become pawns in what just might be the heist of the century. Because Rip’s kill-crazy pals will have to bust him out of jail first...

Genres: Westerns

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 26, 2021

About the author

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling Western writer in America and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over 50 million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as "the Greatest Western writer of the 21st Century." Visit him online at WilliamJohnstone.net.

Reviews

[Bill Riggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

When one of their old friends from their mountain days rides into town the former mountain men and current lawmen of Buffalo Peak expect to catch up on old times and glory days but they never could have anticipated the hell that rode in with him.

[Nolan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Starts out with the three main characters, the marshal is Elwood “Firestick” McQueen, and his deputies are Malachi “Beartooth” Skinner and Jim “Moosejaw” Hendricks, waiting on a grizzly bear to come out of a canyon. They are saved by another old mountain man they know called Rip. The story slowly continues on with Malachi "Beartooth" Skinner being searched for by two Texas Rangers for the murder of a young girl from a different town. Rip is another story in itself. Not really a fast-paced book until the end. Lots of repeat of the same material over and over again. Almost gave up reading this book but kept at it and finished it.

[David Burnworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a Christmas present that Started on Jan 5th at the gym and finished it today, at the gym. Even being the third book in the series (I now have to read the first two) the characters felt like they were already know to me early in the book. The story line was pretty cool, three mountain men who came down to join civilization and they become the towns law. From start to finish there was a lot of action making the reading easy.

[Dirk Stone · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a good read

I enjoyed reading this book. Lots of action. This is probably one of Johnstone's best series or as good as his other series. I would recommend this book to everyone.

[Francie Latham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed

Well, another excellent book with twists and turns. Loved the story and civilization can be a hard and difficult place to live. I wasn’t around, but I did like instant consequences for crime.

[Carol Buchanan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book.

I do so enjoy reading the Firestick books they are full of excitement and danger. I really like Firestick, Moosejaw and Beartooth. They are a great co binational if danger and are very good lawmen.
Thank you.

[David VanHoogstrate · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great read

A great read by my favorite author William W Johnstone, The greatest western fiction writer I have ever read, Awesome!

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Darn Tootin' Good !

[Jamie O’Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yee haw

[Derrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had an interesting tail. Not my favorite western, but wanted to finish the story thus far.

[Beverly Kee · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great story this was!

I really enjoyed the 3rd book in this series! I loved the action and the ending was awesome! I keep hoping those fellas will marry the girls too!

[Truitti]

24-58. Not the run of the mill western or mountain man story. Loved this series. I borrowed this e-book from the Sacramento Public Library through the Libby app.