Hopalong Cassidy is one of the most enduring and popular heroes in
frontier fiction. His legendary exploits in books, movies, and on
television have blazed a mythic and unforgettable trail across the
American West. Now, in the last of four Hopalong Cassidy novels written
by Louis L'Amour, the immortal saddleman rides again -- this time into a
lonely valley of danger and death.
Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from the dead. Answering
an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides
in only to discover that his old friends has been murdered and the ranch
Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, had vanished without a trace.
Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete, but his sense of
loyalty and honor demands that he find that cold-blooded killers and
return to Cindy what is rightfully hers.
Colonel Justin Tradwar, criminal kingpin of the town of Kachina, is the
owner of the sprawling Box T ranch, and he has built his empire with a
shrewd and ruthless determination. In search of Pete's killers and
Cindy's ranch, Hopalong signs on at the Box T, promising to help get
Tradway's wild cattle out of the rattler-infested brush. But in the land
of mesquite and black chaparral, Cassidy confronts a mystery as hellish
as it is haunting -- a bloody trail that leads to the strange and
forbidding Babylon plateau, to $60,000 in stolen gold, and to a showdown
with an outlaw who has already cheated death once... and is determined
to do it again.
When Clarence E. Mulfold -- the original Hopalong Cassidy --retired, he
chose the young Louis L'Amour to carry on the Hopalong tradition in four
classic novels, including the "New York Times" best-sellers "TheRustlers
of West Fork," "The Trail to Seven Pines," and "The Riders of High
Rock." Long out of print and now published for the first time under the
author's own name, Trouble Shooter is a vividly authentic tale of the
Old West that bears the unmistakable Louis L'Amour brand of swift, sure
action, hard-fought justice, and frontier courage. Capturing the
unquenchable thirst for adventure, the passions that drove men, and the
perils that awaited the, in an untamed new land, this extraordinary
early novel gives us Louis L'Amour at the height of his powers -- an
enduring testament to America's favorite storyteller.
