A lamb to the slaughter
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"Tinhorn, Texas, is a small town, quiet and peaceful. Sheriff Buck Jackson and Deputy Flint Moran go to great pains to keep it that way. So when two drifters arrive in town--one nursing a bullet wound--the lawmen suspect trouble ain't far behind. Bart McCoy and Roy Tate claim to be cattlemen and have more than enough cash to prove it. But Buck and Flint don't believe Tate's story of accidentally shooting McCoy while cleaning his gun. Then four more men arrive, armed to the teeth, looking to fill the supposed ranchers full of lead. Turns out six outlaws robbed a Wells Fargo Office and murdered a guard. Then the thieves turned against each other--and McCoy and Tate's escaped with the loot. Now their former friends have hunted them to Tinhorn and will massacre everyone in town to retrieve their ill-gotten gains. Buck and Flint have sworn to protect Tinhorn to the fullest extent of the law. And in the wild west of Texas, the only law bandits and killers understand comes from the business end of a gun.
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Johnstone, W. W., & Johnstone, J. A. (2024). A lamb to the slaughter. Thornndike Press, a part of Gale Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Johnstone, William W. and J. A., Johnstone. 2024. A Lamb to the Slaughter. Thornndike Press, a part of Gale Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Johnstone, William W. and J. A., Johnstone, A Lamb to the Slaughter. Thornndike Press, a part of Gale Company, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Johnstone, William W., and J. A. Johnstone. A Lamb to the Slaughter. Thornndike Press, a part of Gale Company, 2024.
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| Last Sierra Extract Time | Sep 09, 2025 08:25:21 PM |
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| Last File Modification Time | Sep 09, 2025 08:25:30 PM |
| Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Sep 18, 2025 04:04:31 AM |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A lamb to the slaughter / |c William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone. |
| 264 | 1 | |a [Thorndike, Maine] : |b Thornndike Press, a part of Gale Company, |c 2024. | |
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| 508 | |a "Publisher's Note: Following the death of William W. Johnstone [in 2004], the Johnstone family is working with a carefully selected writer to organize and complete Mr. Johnstone's outlines and many unfinished manuscripts to create additional novels in all of his series like 'The Last Gunfighter', 'Mountain Man', and 'Eagles', among others. This novel was inspired by Mr. Johnstone's superb storytelling"--T.p. verso. | ||
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