Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend. This item is unavailable.Ralph Compton Return to Gila Bend

In this breathless new instalment 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. On the day twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor was released from the Texas State Prison, he received little attention as he walked into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest was in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he had only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he had survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood - and of Darla Winslow. What he finds upon his return 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 now he's turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. The ex-con is left with only one option: fighting back.

Ralph Compton stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Riders series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.

Carlton Stowers is an award-winning journalist and the author of more than two dozen books, including Comanche Trail, which was named a finalist for both the Western Fictioneers and the Texas Institute of Letters best first novel awards. He lives in Cedar Hill, Texas.