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    Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend
    Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend
    Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend
    Audiobook7 hours

    Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend

    Written by Ralph Compton and Carlton Stowers

    Narrated by Graham Winton

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this breathless new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton’s The Gunfighter Series, an ex-con
    fights to free his hometown from the clutches of a greedy land baron.

    When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he
    walks into the sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn’t commit.

    His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which
    he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he’d
    known since boyhood—and of one special girl, Darla Winslow.

    What he finds instead is a town dramatically changed. Once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated
    by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer Ringewald, has taken control of the town, and he’s
    turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. Can one ex-con single-handedly save an entire town?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781705005705
    Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend
    Author

    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.

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