Bøker av Paul Colt

The product of an aristocratic Old South upbringing, John Henry "Doc" Holliday's dreams of a career in dentistry are dashed at a young age by respiratory disease. Encouraged to seek the therapeutic benefits of drier climes, John Henry undertakes an odyssey crossing the western frontier, often in the company of soiled dove Kate Elder. It's a journey that transforms him from gentleman dentist to professional gambler. What emerges is a complex character we come to know through contrasting lenses-a family portrait protective of its legacy, a turbulent romantic relationship, and a friendship steeped in loyalty no matter the cost, all the while stalked by the specter of death riding a pale horse.Gambling, drinking, and living on the edge, ever beset by disease, Doc nevertheless maintains an inbred code of honor to violent necessity. He meets and befriends Wyatt Earp, following him from Dodge City in its wide-open, cow town heyday to a date with destiny in Tombstone. Ever trailing in Doc's wake, Kate is never far behind, her love drawn to the self-destruction of a condemned man, like a moth to the flame of inevitable demise.Doc walks away from the legendary O.K. Corral gunfight. He survives the Earp vendetta ride. He escapes legal consequences of the killings in Tombstone. But he can never outrun the rider mounted on a pale horse. Dancing on the edge of oblivion, driven by fate and an unyielding will to live on his own terms, Lunger is Doc Holliday's story as he himself might have told it.

A Shot in the Dark. A Questionable Claim. A Mystery That Just Won't Die.In the exciting conclusion to his epic Bounty Trilogy, bestselling author Paul Colt pulls back the curtain on one of the West's most enduring mysteries-the death of Billy the Kid at the hands of Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881.Emerging as a violent and headstrong young gunslinger during the famed Lincoln County War, William F. Bonney's audacious outlaw escapades are legendary-but are they accurate? Witness the intricate web of contradictions surrounding not only his reputation, but his supposed death, as well. Was it truly Billy who met his demise that night, or did the pressure on Garrett from above lead to a case of mistaken identity and an elaborate cover-up?Skillfully conceived and masterfully written, A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt will make you question everything you thought you knew about the man known as Billy the Kid.

"Done with authority. I bought it as history." -Dusty Richards, 3-Time Spur Award-winning Western AuthorBlatant Corruption. Murder Unpunished. And in the Middle, a Kid Named Billy.Bounty of Greed continues Paul Colt's Bounty Trilogy capturing the epic story we know as the Lincoln County War. Powerful merchant and political strongman James Dolan owns Lincoln County, until brash, young English businessman John Tunstall hits town to challenge Dolan's empire. Dolan will stop at nothing, even murder, to retain his commercial stranglehold on Lincoln.Tunstall's murder ignites war in Lincoln County. Tunstall partisan William Bonney vows revenge, launching Billy the Kid's legendary outlaw career. Tunstall and Chisum gunmen, calling themselves Regulators, systematically hunt down and kill those responsible for Tunstall's death. Deputy U.S. Marshal Ty Ledger is swept up in the tides of war, caught between determined forces swirling toward a bloody confrontation that threatens the woman he loves. The war comes to a fiery climax when the army is called in to battle for Lincoln.