Siege Town

Siege Town

<b>It starts, like all good stories do, when a stranger rides into town… </b><br /><br /><br /><br />The Sheriff has called in notorious gunslinger, Rick Hartnell, to drive the outlaws from Hammer Bend.<br /><br /><br /><br />Rick has a dark past but a steady hand and he gets the job done soon enough.<br /><br /><br /><br />He leads a crew of forty men up into the mountains to ambush the infamous Lenniger Gang.<br /><br /><br /><br />That should have been the end of it.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lenniger is taken back to Hammer Bend to await his trial and Rick rides off out into the Badlands.<br /><br /><br /><br />But Lenniger’s gang, what’s left of them, are determined to rescue their infamous leader.<br /><br /><br /><br />When the gang threatens to wreck havoc upon the town unless Lenniger is released, the Sheriff may find that the people of Hammer Bend aren’t as loyal as they seem.<br /><br /><br /><br />Is Rick the only person left that he can trust?<br /><br /><br /><br />Can he rally the townsfolk of this <em>Siege Town</em> and prevent a savage attack?<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Praise for John Glasby</h2><br /><br /><br /><br />‘A thrilling read’ - <b>Robert Foster</b>, acclaimed author of <em>The Lunar Code</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>John Glasby</b> was born in 1928, and gradu¬ated from University with an honours degree in Chemistry. He started his career as a research chemist for I.C.I, in 1952, and worked for them until his retirement. During the early 1960s, Glasby wrote dozens of paperback westerns, all of which were reprinted in hardcover and paperback four decades later. Following his retirement from I.C.I., Glasby produced a steady stream of new westerns, science fiction and crime novels, right up to his death in 2010. His westerns include <em>Justice at Red River</em>, <em>Flashpoint</em>, <em>Brand of the Hunted</em> and <em>Triple Peaks</em>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Pioneering Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK’s leading independent digital publisher. We publish new and classic westerns by authors from the US and the UK. <br /><br />Follow us on Twitter: @PioneeringPress <br />