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    Ralph Compton Straight to the Noose
    Ralph Compton Straight to the Noose
    Ralph Compton Straight to the Noose
    Audiobook7 hours

    Ralph Compton Straight to the Noose

    Written by Ralph Compton and Marcus Galloway

    Narrated by Pete Bradbury

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    About this audiobook

    KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER Mississippi charmer Abner Mason is a professional gambler and a regular on the Delta Jack, a luxurious riverboat. But luck hasn't exactly been going Mason's way. After a disastrous loss at the tables, he owes an impossible debt to the most powerful man on the ship: mysterious, ruthless Cam Greeley. And Greeley's willing to do whatever it takes to get his fortune back-even threaten Mason's life. Now Mason has a single night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt by completing whatever ominous jobs Greeley has waiting for him. He just has to make it through alive...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 6, 2018
    ISBN9781501913242
    Ralph Compton Straight to the Noose
    Author

    Ralph Compton

    Ralph Compton stood six-foot-eight without his boots. His first novel in the Trail Drive series, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was also the author of the Sundown Rider series and the Border Empire series. A native of St. Clair County, Alabama, Compton worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist before turning to writing westerns. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1998.

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