{"product_id":"ralph-compton-blood-of-the-hunters-9780593100738","title":"Ralph Compton Blood of the Hunters","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this compelling new installment of bestseller Ralph Compton's The Gunfighters series, a man driven by the destruction of his family seeks to protect a woman and her children from a band of desperados.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Stockbridge was once a peaceful man of medicine. Now, he's better known as Dr. Vengeance, a man who is as fast with a shotgun as any other gunfighter is with a six-gun. The murders of his wife and child left him with an aching hole where his soul once was. His only solace comes from wandering the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the way, he encounters a woman and her two children searching for their missing fur-trapper husband\/father in the Rockies. In the process, they run afoul of some foul former Confederates who have amassed money and local power by robbing those traveling west through a mountain pass. While searching for the missing trapper -- and aided by a Mexican mountain man and an independent woman who works at the local hotel-- Stockbridge must take down the vicious highwaymen one by one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Compton\u003c\/b\u003e stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Goodnight Trail\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Rovin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than 150 books, fiction and nonfiction, both under his own name, under various pseudonyms, or as a ghostwriter, including numerous \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers and over a dozen of the original Tom Clancy's Op-Center novels.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519683858706,"sku":"9780593100738","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f58c0360-2f1d-4634-97de-1bfea7614baa.jpg?v=1731062267","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ralph-compton-blood-of-the-hunters-9780593100738","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}