Ronin Robot Press: 15 books

It's 1972 The Watergate scandal has Washington on edge. Rick Putnam, a Vietnam veteran and motorcycle courier for one of the leading national news networks, is trying to get on with his life after a nightmarish ordeal in the war--riding a big bike as fast as possible is one way to forget. WhenRick picks...

The California Trail one year before the Gold Rush--a dramatic and dangerous land where a good mule can be your best friend and each traveler’s refinements and pretensions will be stripped away by the tests of the trail. Set in 1848, this western pits the poetic notions and desires of a romantic...

O'Ronin Rye always brings you the very latest in yesterday’s Westerns. William MacVeigh, a jilted Mountie, nurses a broken heart while maintaining law and order in the frozen north. Meanwhile, his Mountie cabin-mate is pining for his woman and quite literally dying of loneliness. For many long,...

These three classic novels of the Far North are enchanting adventure COMPLETELY ANNOTATED FOR TODAY'S READERS James Oliver Curwood was born in Michigan in 1878. He never finished high school and his work history was erratic, but he was devoted to writing, beginning at age nine. He spend two years...

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, the richest gold and silver strike in the history of North America, is the setting for this western. Into the maelstrom created by its discovery will be drawn an innocent young girl who catches the eye of a scoundrel, a generous old man who tries to save everyone, and...

O'Ronin Rye always brings you the very latest in yesterday’s Westerns. A jilted husband with nothing left to lose; a wandering priest with a secret; a missing wife searching for her child; a beautiful young girl fighting for her virtue; two brutal mountain men determined to destroy everything good...

If you enjoy a Wild West story with cattle rustlers, bank robbers, shootouts, hangings, lawmen, mystery, and romance, Mavericks is the book for you. The noble Arizona Rangers roamed the territory rooting out evildoers in a lawless land. Meanwhile, in the absence of a stable law enforcement presence,...

Awards for Courier First Place, Indie Excellence Award, Political Thrillers 2015 Runner Up, Wild Card Category, New England Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, Fiction Category, Hollywood Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, General Fiction, San Francisco Book Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, Wild...

The Wild West was lawless but had a few iron-clad rules, among them: never draw the attention of the Vigilante Commmittee, never kill a bartender, and certainly never mess with a woman that another man wants to stake a claim on. With too few women to go around, the trouble for Texas John begins at...

Geraldine Bonner’s Treasure and Trouble Therewith, A Tale of California, richly evokes a moment in the history of San Francisco. The adventure book is a joy to read, not just for the history and interplay of scoundrel and hero, wicked woman and good, but also for the small treasures buried in the...

3 outstanding Arrington Novels in one! CLASH AT CRUEL CREEK Cruel Creek is named because gold nuggets are plentiful in the clear waters but the two mine owners won't let anyone near. Between them they own most of the little town and, whoever they don't own, they buy. Between their money and their...

A ripping, wild-west melodrama of lust, greed, gold, railroads, madmen, dynamite, prostitution--and the love of a good woman with a complicated past for a man convinced that all women are bad. Joanne is a beautiful woman who travels alone by rail on a mysterious, desperate mission. John Aldous is...

We grew up on Westerns on T.V., and we think we know about vigilantes--spontaneous groups of killer mobs thirsting for a hanging. But Vigilante Justice sets the record straight with the story of "The Vigilante Commission," historically, wealthy landowners who set themselves up as official vigilantes...

Two young women arrive on a remote ranch and the cowboys are competing for their attention, “some with a foolish grin, some downcast and reserved, some swaggering in the natural pride of the lady’s man.” Hidden Water explores how American cowboys talked, thought, and behaved during the turn...