Rebel with a Gun

by Van Holt

Overview

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REBEL WITH A GUN

He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right.
So he headed for Texas with a disreputable old snake oil peddler and a beautiful blonde with a jealous husband and a dangerous secret that could get them all killed.
Even though he had ridden with Quantrill and Bloody Bill, he was not like the others. Many of them were not the only bushwhackers who flourished during the war. Men just like them had waved the Union flag and used it to cloak their crimes, and now that the fighting was over not all of them would be content to lay down their arms and return to their former pursuits. Some, like their southern counterparts, would become outlaws. Many on both sides had never been anything else, and for them the war had just been a continuation of a life of lawlessness and violence. Now they would use the unsettled conditions in the wake of the war to camouflage their activities.
Of course, many would go west, especially to Texas. For years men had been going to Texas who were wanted or not wanted in other states. There was a well-known saying� �Gone to Texas.� It usually applied to men who had gone there a jump ahead of the law.

Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously�by reading another Van Holt western.
Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.

More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt:
- A Few Dead Men
- Blood in the Hills
- Brandon�s Law
- Curly Bill and Ringo
- Dead Man Riding
- Dead Man's Trail
- Death in Black Holsters
- Dynamite Riders
- Hellbound Express
- Hunt the Killers Down
- Maben
- Rebel With a Gun
- Riding for Revenge
- Rubeck's Raiders
- Shiloh Stark
- Shoot to Kill
- Six-Gun Solution
- The Antrim Guns
- The Bounty Hunters
- The Bushwhackers
- The Fortune Hunters
- The Gundowners
- The Gundown Trail
- The Hellbound Man
- The Last of the Fighting Farrells
- The Long Trail
- The Man Called Bowdry
- The Stranger from Hell
- The Vultures
- Wild Country
- Wild Desert Rose

Coming soon by Van Holt:
- The Return of Frank Graben
- The Revenge of Sam Graben

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148945772
Publisher:	Three Knolls Publishing
Publication date:	12/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	175
Sales rank:	833,444
File size:	694 KB

About the Author

What some reviewers have to say about Van Holt�s writing:
�I had a feeling that Van Holt�might actually be the successor to Zane Gray, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation.� --Stern0
�Van Holt is King of the Spaghetti Western�� --Rarebird1

Van Holt wrote his first western when he was in high school and sent it to a literary agent, who soon returned it, saying it was too long but he would try to sell it if Holt would cut out 16,000 words. Young Holt couldn't bear to cut out any of his perfect western, so he threw it away and started writing another one.
A draft notice interrupted his plans to become the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. A tour of duty as an MP stationed in South Korea was pretty much the usual MP stuff except for the time he nabbed a North Korean spy and had to talk the dimwitted desk sergeant out of letting the guy go. A briefcase stuffed with drawings of U.S. aircraft and the like only caused the overstuffed lifer behind the counter to rub his fat face, blink his bewildered eyes, and start eating a big candy bar to console himself. Imagine Van Holt's surprise a few days later when he heard that same dumb sergeant telling a group of new admirers how he himself had caught the famous spy one day when he was on his way to the mess hall.
Holt says there hasn't been too much excitement since he got out of the army, unless you count the time he was attacked by two mean young punks and shot one of them in the big toe. Holt believes what we need is punk control, not gun control.
After traveling all over the West and Southwest in an aging Pontiac, Van Holt got tired of traveling the day he rolled into Tucson and he has been there ever since, still dreaming of becoming the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour when he grows up. Or maybe the next great mystery writer. He likes to write mysteries when he's not too busy writing westerns or eating Twinkies.

Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously�by reading another Van Holt western.
Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.