Texas Standoff: A Novel of the Texas Rangers

By Elmer Kelton

Book Overview

In Texas Standoff , Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured regulator and a standoff in the county jail wind up bringing to justice the men responsible for the killings and thievery. Among the culprits is a man whose guilt no one would have guessed, and among the ironies of the case is a telegram to the Rangers from the State of Texas notifying them that their services are no long required.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765325799
• ISBN13: 9780765325792
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

An Andy Pickard Story

As I write this, this is the last novel to be published by Elmer Kelton. He had died the previous year. I suspect Forge was publishing him as fast as he wrote, because of his popularity. (He was the only living author I was buying at the time, and have found no one to replace him.) This book continues the saga of Andy Pickard in his role as a Texas Ranger, and is well worth reading more than once. As with most authors I do like his early work better; novels such as Hot Iron; Buffalo Wagon; Donovan Barbed Wire; The Wolf and the Buffalo. And if you like this one you'll love them. Buy it and give Elmer Kelton a try.