01778cam a2200337 i 4500 309085930 TxAuBib 20170826120000.0 160127s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2016003836 9780786035670 0786035676 (OCoLC)910294413 TxAuBib rda Johnstone, William W. Better off Dead [TP] / William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone. New York, NY : Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp, [2016] 377 pages ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Shawn O'Brien On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry, whose weapons of war have spread death and destruction around the world--and made a few men in Big Buck, Texas, incredibly rich. Now, a Mexican-born teenager has disappeared into this fortress factory, where men work and sweat as slaves. This boy's sister wants to learn her brother's fate, and she just happens to know a man named Shawn O'Brien, the town tamer. Shawn rides to Texas to find the missing boy. What he discovers in Big Buck will spark a ferocious, bloody battle with the greatest evil the West ever known: masters of war who (laugh in the face of anyone who defies them--until Shawn O'Brien raises his six gun. Then the laughing stops.) 20170826. Ordnance Fiction. Firearms Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Western stories. Johnstone, J. A, author. Shawn O'Brien.