Hell's Half Acre [Dramatized Adaptation]

William W. Johnstone

Narrator Brady Smith, David Jourdan, Terence Aselford, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Gregory Gorton, Ken Jackson, Scott McCormick, Marni Penning, Dylan Lynch, Mort Shelby, Eric Messner, Andy Clemence, Lily Beacon, Michael John Casey, Tony Nam, Nick DePinto, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Katy Carkuff, Lawrence Redmond, Jonathan Feuer, Matthew Keenan, Duane Beeman, A Full Cast

Publisher: GraphicAudio

Summary

"Stay the Hell out of Fort Worth."Those were the last words uttered by a dying man who was the boomtown's most recent sheriff. Rail-thin and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Jess not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff, inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hell's Half Acre, the wide-open, deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier.Hell's Half Acre is home to Kurt Koenig and his gang-run empire of booze, prostitution, and wholesale slaughter. For Koenig, the only good lawman is a dead one, and he puts a pretty price on Jess Casey's head. For Jess Casey, that means war. Against him are the frontier's fastest draw and a host of murderous triggers. On his side are decades of rock-hard Texas living, a couple of ne'er-do-well deputies, and the good sense to do all his talking behind the barrel of a fast-blazing gun ...

Duration: about 5 hours (05:09:50)
Publishing date: 2020-06-03; Adapted; Copyright Year: 2015. Copyright Statment: —

Contemporary Fiction