The Lawman

by Robert J. Randisi

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He almost paid the ultimate price for a crime he didn't commit. Now Decker is determined to track down others wanted by the law... Red Moran liked being sheriff, but only for a little while. No one ever suspected - until it was too late - that he was the one robbing small town banks all over the West. And when things got hot, he'd just go down to Mexico. But he didn't know Decker would track a man to hell to see justice done.

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Red Moran likes being a sheriff but he eventually he becomes bored and quits. However his method of quitting is to rob the local bank and then high tail it to Mexico to spend it. When the money runs out, he heads back across the border and becomes a sheriff in another town too desperate for someone to take the job to bother doing a reference check. Unfortunately for him and the bank manager in the last bank, he kills the manager and makes the reward for his capture large enough to attract the attention of Decker, a bounty hunter.

Shortly after taking up the chase into Mexico, Decker runs into the scouts of a gang of Mexican bandits led by a sick brother & sister team. He kills the scouts and this leads to his being followed by the entire show more gang of 30 bandits. This leads to an amazing shootout in the town controlled by the bandits and we are only half way through the novel.

Continuous action with some unusual characters keeps one turning the pages. The jacket blurb suggests Randisi is the replacement for Louis L'Amour. In terms of the action he is much like L'Amour but with an added liberal quantity of fairly explicit sex. Seems every character, male or female is looking for a roll in the hay.
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Robert J. Randisi was a mystery writer who, in 1979, was asked to create a Western Series to be published by Charter Books. He created the Gunsmith Series, writing under the pseudonym J. R. Roberts, which he followed with a story in the Tracker Series as Tom Cutter and seven other western series under seven other pseudonyms. He has also written show more several Mystery stories as well. Randisi is the author of over 400 novels, 40 short stories, has edited 25 anthologies and has written under 15 pseudonyms. He founded the Private Eye Writers of America and created the Shamus Award. He is co-founder of Mystery Scene Magazine and the American Crime Writer's League. Randisi has also the edited Mean Streets and the Private Eye Writers of America's newsletter. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Mystery Convention and has been nomiated for the Shamus Award four times. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Suspense & Thriller
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS648 .D4 .U54Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureProse (General)
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