Wayne D. Overholser

Nugget City is a town on the brink of a range war. Will the arrival of a mysterious stranger push it over the edge? Especially one who wears two guns ...

"In Land Rush white families have lined up, waiting for the U.S. Army's signal to move in on the land vacated by the Ute Indians and make their homestead claims. Steve Regan knows the newly opened land well enough and wants to head for the mesa land because he knows the soil to be superior. His brother Al appears to have allied himself with Bronc Vedder and his group who want to set up a vigilance committee to punish claim-jumpers, and behind this is Vedder's intention to claim the mesa land for himself. In Guns in Sage Valley Dave Logan is about to come of age. He knows that his parents have been starving on Logan Pocket where they have been farming. The challenge comes when Matt Strang and his cattle herd arrive, and Strang hires Dave to join his outfit, and Dave feels this is the right thing for him to do"--

Charles Parnell Cassidy is an Australian politician cast in the traditional Irish-Catholic mold of rhetoric, dynasty, and influence-peddling. Martin Gregory is the moral and disenchanted protege who married Cassidy's daughter, went to Europe, became a success on his own merits, and scorned his father-in-law. When the terminally ill Cassidy appears in London to die, he makes Gregory the executor of his legal estate and sets a complex trap by offering him the keys to a vast empire of wealth and corruption spanning Australia and Southeast Asia. With Cassidy's evil influence ever present, Gregory tries to unravel the complications of the old man's estate, obligations, and debts, while struggling with his own ambition and the security of his family. A powerful story from a master storyteller.

From the back cover of Bantam paperback June 1980: June 26, 1963. JFK's triumphal visit to divided Berlin is about to trigger catastrophe for the Free World... East German Intelligence -- with the aid of a renegade American -- has set a diabolical snare. And now, only a desperate team of Allied operatives -- six monks, an American priest, a British major and a young woman doctor who has played into Communist hands -- can save the West from a terrifying DAY OF JUDGMENT

"Caught between land-hungry settlers and war-hungry Utes, government agent Dave Rand tries to avert an Indian war without compromising what he knows to be right"--

"Two Western stories about young men who return to their home towns and are faced with difficult decisions that will require them to use their guns"--

When Jim Dunn, better known as the Kid, rode into his old hometown of Cairo, he figured he'd have to shoot fast. The folks there would most likely remember his saloon-wrecking sprees and hell-raising exploits. What the Kid didn't figure on was finding his father six feet under and his brand-new stepmother running the family ranch with an outlaw crew. Nobody, not even the Kid's girl, thought Jim could get the ranch back from the fast-drawing gang hired by his stepmother. But the Kid had swapped lead with the best of them in the three years he'd been tramping around all over the West. He didn't come back to Cairo looking for trouble, but he wasn't going to run from it either. And when his best friend took a bullet that was meant for him, the Kid got mad -- mad enough to kill. . .