Longhorn Trail

Shadrach Jones has had his bellyful of the hatred Texans feel for him. He is pulling out of the carpetbagger State Police with the hope of living out his days as a farmer earning an honest wage. However, Shadrach has one last chore before he goes home – a personal vengeance hunt. On retiring from the Police, he had given his life savings to his younger brother instructing him to buy a cattle ranch for them both to run. This dream never materialised… His brother was murdered in cold blood for the banknotes he was carrying, leaving Shadrach with no family and no money. Shadrach’s search for revenge takes a strange hairpin turn and he becomes the trail driver of a herd of vicious longhorns and scowling hair-trigger hands – among them his brother’s killer! This twist of fate means that Shadrach now has a chance to prove himself on a future career path at the same time as hunting his brother’s killer. Full of the real blood and seat of the Old West, this is an unusually vivid novel about the Longhorn Trail that made Texas history. Praise for Richard Wormser ‘Realistically told… carefully controlled, fast paced’ – Kirkus Reviews Richard Wormser (1908-1977) was an award-winning American author best known for pulp fiction, crime and Westerns. Originally from New York City, he moved to California to become a rancher in the 1930s, before eventually settling in Arizona with his wife. Wormser won two Spur Awards; for Ride a Northbound Horse in 1964 and The Black Mustanger in 1971.