01630cam a2200277 4500 125789768 TxAuBib 20130123120000.0 120827s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780786028122 pbk. 0786028122 pbk. UKMGB eng UKMGB OCLCO KNJ ZS3 G3M TxAuBib Johnstone, William W. Strike of the mountain man [PB] / William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone. New York : Pinnacle Books, 2012. 344 p. ; 17 cm. "Pinnacle western" -- Spine. "Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk--from way back East. What is he doing out here? The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir, just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron is circling the Humbolt ranch like a ravenous vulture. Poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Smoke is the not the pitying kind. But any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too: kill-crazy hired gunmen are threatening the whole valley and good men are dying. Puddle may not be much, but he's all Smoke has--as a take-no-prisoners mountain man and a timid tinhorn make for an army of two--in one hell of a fight."-- P. [4] of cover. 20130123. Heirs Fiction. Shooters of firearms Fiction. Jensen, Smoke (Fictitious character) Fiction. Ranches Fiction. WESTERN STORIES. Neighbors Fiction.