Ride the Wild Country

San Francisco was hot. Too hot for troubleshooter Joshua Dillard after a vice lord drew a gun on him in a ritzy Russian Hill parlor house and he was obliged to blast him down with his Peacemaker. So Joshua brought forward a railroad trip to the wilds of Colorado where he had a job lined up for him by a mysterious Leigh Jordan, of New York City. In Colorado he was soon embroiled in more bloody mayhem, this time with hostile attorney Walt Sloane and his thugs. Enter a femme fatale needing his unorthodox services, take a ride into the rugged foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and Joshua was soon neck-deep in deception, deviancy, and murderous gunfire. The facts that emerged concerning an abusive father, his adopted daughter, and a contestable Manhattan inheritance fell into place to tell an ugly story...
What reviewers have said:
"Dillard is a great character, almost a frontier Mike Hammer... He's a standup guy who's looking out for those who can't look after themselves, the classic tough/tender sleuth in a stetson and duster."
"Chap O'Keefe's series character Joshua Dillard is nothing if not a hardboiled private eye in the Old West ... these books would have made good Gold Medal paperbacks or Double D hardbacks."


Genre: Western