This Violent Land

A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West

By: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

In this powerful new novel, William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone chronicle Smoke Jensen's early years, long before he became a legend.

Kirby - later Smoke - Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy US marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of Las Animas. There he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the outlaw leader Cole Dawson, whose six-gun has left a lot of good men dead.

Young Smoke feels no such fear. He takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. It turns out Dawson is only a cog in a crooked plot hatched by someone hiding behind the law. For a young deputy marshal, going up against the powerful and corrupt is almost certainly a fool's mission, but doing nothing is not a choice. When Smoke strikes, he's in all the bloody way, and what follows will become the stuff of legend.

Braving bullets, blood, and treachery to face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado Territory, Smoke will earn a reputation for justice and the rule of law in a wild, violent frontier.

©2015 J.A. Johnstone (P)2016 Recorded Books

Excellent listen.

Simple. Heroic. Uncomplicated. But completely engaging.
Narration was excellent. I will listen to another by this author.

this was an amazing book

I will definitely be buying the hard back for my collection. I can't wait to read the next book. :)

great,story

Can't wait to download the next in the series, The storyline is great and the narration is awesome thank you For sharing this title

great book

I like this book from the start to finish I like it when the main character smoke Jensen is the toughest guy in the book and not always winning by accident like another books

Smoke rides again

This must be one of the first books of the series. Great story about Smoke snd Preacher.

Miss Sally comes in to view as well.

And now for the rest of the stories.