Bounty of Greed: The Lincoln County War

By Paul Colt

Book Overview

"Done with authority. I bought it as history." -Dusty Richards, 3-Time Spur Award-winning Western Author

Blatant Corruption. Murder Unpunished. And in the Middle, a Kid Named Billy.

Bounty of Greed continues Paul Colt's Bounty Trilogy capturing the epic story we know as the Lincoln County War. Powerful merchant and political strongman James Dolan owns Lincoln County, until brash, young English businessman John Tunstall hits town to challenge Dolan's empire. Dolan will stop at nothing, even murder, to retain his commercial stranglehold on Lincoln.

Tunstall's murder ignites war in Lincoln County. Tunstall partisan William Bonney vows revenge, launching Billy the Kid's legendary outlaw career. Tunstall and Chisum gunmen, calling themselves Regulators, systematically hunt down and kill those responsible for Tunstall's death. Deputy U.S. Marshal Ty Ledger is swept up in the tides of war, caught between determined forces swirling toward a bloody confrontation that threatens the woman he loves. The war comes to a fiery climax when the army is called in to battle for Lincoln.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633739007
• ISBN13: 9781633739000
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Hat Creek (Formerly Hat Creek Press)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"