Joseph West: 25 books

Joseph West, born in Egypt, arrived in the USA—Los Angeles, to be precise—for a visit when he was just thirteen and determined never to go back. He lived with his sister and her husband as part of a triumvirate of secret-keepers. His sister never talked about her inability to sustain a pregnancy....

Life does not discriminate upon who it imparts its ups and downs. Joseph believes his/your choices in any situation can lead to the desire to transform these circumstances. Joseph’s writing is a vehicle in which he releases his creative psyche to express his emotions. His writing is raw, from the...

This western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series goes from the mean streets of New York City to the lawless frontier... Ordered to head west when a notorious New York City gangster puts a price on his head, Detective Sergeant Joseph McBride ends up in the lawless boomtown of High...

A U.S. Marshal ends up in the last place he should be in this Ralph Compton western... Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles is being blackmailed—by President Chester A. Arthur. The Commander-in-Chief needs someone to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the...

There's a thin line between the law and the lawless in this Ralph Compton western... Newspaper reporter Lester T. Booker traveled to Santa Fe to interview legendary gunfighter and dime novel hero Ransom March. But the quick-drawing “Prince of the Plains” Booker meets turns out to be little...

A lawless town lives in the shadow of fear in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series. Tam Elliot founded Eden Creek to be a utopia of peace and prosperity. The town achieved neither, and in despair Elliot took his own life. His daughter Allison rechristened the town Suicide,...

In this Ralph Compton western, the most wanted man in the West isn’t an outlaw. But he’s still worth $30,000 dead or alive… An inexperienced cowpuncher with a solid work ethic, Dusty Hannah has earned the respect of his boss. Entrusted with $30,000, he has been charged to deliver the...

The bones of the first Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered have been unearthed in Montana’s dusty cattle country, circa 1908. But Chinese American detective Chester Wong has another body to worry about—that of the paleontologist who discovered the fossil, shortly before his murder. Hired...

A man fights for his freedom in this Ralph Compton western. Buck Fletcher is facing a twenty-year sentence for a murder he didn’t commit. But he just might have one chance at freedom. Senator Falcon Stark needs a man of Buck’s notoriety and gunfighting skill to travel to northern Arizona—and...

For a gambler caught in a land war, the stakes are life and death in this Ralph Compton western. A plague of brutal killings has descended on the town of Green Meadow, Oklahoma. At the scene of every grisly murder, a threatening message reads simply: GET OUT. A mysterious villain known...

A man with nothing left to lose finds a reason to fight in this Ralph Compton western. Requiem, formerly known as Apache Creek, is a town that has seen better days. After a plague of cholera swept through the streets, the only folk left behind are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Even though...

Two men team up to take down a corrupt rancher in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series... Chance Tyree never looks for trouble. But with his reputation as a lethal gunhand, trouble has a habit of finding him. In the Utah canyonlands, Chance ends up at the wrong end of...

In this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series, the deepest scars are the ones on a man’s soul… When Lieutenant Steve Stryker learns Rake Pierce is running guns to the Apaches, he sees his chance for vengeance. Pierce disfigured Stryker’s face while escaping from custody,...

In this Ralph Compton western, even the most rugged trailsman has to watch his steps... It’s called the Whoop-Up Trail. It’s a two hundred mile stretch of rough terrain between Montana and Canada, littered with spiky brushwood, crawling with clawed and fanged critters of all shapes and...