Books in series
#1
The Lawman
2007
Jack Slade pulled up his roots a long time ago to take life one day at a time, risking his living, and his neck, at gambling tables across the west. A disappointment to his family, he’s been estranged from them for years. Then he receives word of his brother’s death—under mysterious circumstances—in Lawton, Oklahoma.
It’s been four years since Jack saw Jim, who planted his roots to become a successful rancher. In addition to acres of land and herds of cattle, Jim left behind a fiancée who has been fending off offers on her property—as well as cattle rustlers.
The mysterious circumstances behind Jim’s death are starting to become clear. And when fate pins a badge on Jack, he finds himself walking the line between justice and revenge…
#2
Slade's Law
2008
Dead men tell tales—the living take vengeance.
HORROR IN SERENITY
Jack Slade, now a deputy U.S. marshal in the lawless Oklahoma Territory, is investigating the mysterious death of fellow marshal Aaron Price near a town called Serenity. But Slade soon learns Serenity is nothing like its name. Strangers who pass through Serenity seem to vanish, or in Price's case, die suddenly and violently.
Although Serenity's marshal claims Price was the victim of a rattlesnake bite, a farmer who found the dead man saw marks of a human killer—namely, bullet holes. No one else in Serenity will talk. When Slade demands that the corpse be exhumed, he's liable to dig up trouble as well as answers...
#3
Helltown
2008
The return of U.S. Marshal Jack Slade, a hell-raising cowboy who'll stop at nothing for revenge.
Hell does indeed exist. U.S. Deputy Marshal Slade can attest to that, and it's in Gehenna, Oklahoma Territory. On any given day there, someone's liable to break the law. Now, two heartless honchos are fighting over the place. And all the decent townspeople have to pray for their lives. The thing is, both tycoons want Slade as their pawn against the other, but the lawdog works for no one. In this battle, it's impossible to know whose side anyone's on. And Slade must be at the ready, or else lose the war.
#4
Massacre Trail
2009
U.S. Deputy Marshal Jack Slade must stop cross-country carnage.
The homestead killers have been cutting a bloody swath across Oklahoma Territory, leaving behind a trail of corpses, slaughtering whole families on isolated farms and stealing their livestock. Slade follows the trail of bloodshed to the town of Paradise, where he aims to stop the butchers- before Paradise becomes a hell on earth.
#5
Hanging Judge
2009
UNMASKING A MASTERMIND
U.S. Marshal Jack Slade dreads the grim routine of hanging days. But this one is anything but routine. Just as the condemned men march to the ropes, shots ring out, sending the hanging judge tumbling from his viewing balcony. By the end of the shoot-out, three nameless gunmen have bitten the dust, but one has fled...
Beware! The silent brotherhood
remembers!...Traitors die,
and so shall you!
This note from the judge's pocket, along with a single matchbox, is all Slade has to track the gunman. As he follows these slim leads to the town of Last Resort, Slade hears ominous tales about a son of Dixie—and the resurrection of a group of hooded killers he thought long gone. To release their deadly grip on the area, Slade's going to need a sure hand...and a ready gun.
#6
Manhunt
2010
Deputy U.S. Marshall Jack Slade's on the trail of kith and kin killers.
Slade can't help but remember his own murdered twin brother, while trying to keep one outlaw from busting his equally notorious twin out of prison. But with a Colt on his hip, Slade's dead set on making this one hell of a family reunion...
#7
Avenging Angels
2010
Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade does his preaching with bullets.
The Prophet claims to be punishing sinners on behalf of the Lord- sending his "Avenging Angels" out to slaughter anyone who doesn't see the light. But it's Slade who's going to deliver the final judgement to the Prophet and his zealots.
#8
Blood Trails
2011
Blood Trails
The Lawman
The Infamous Ripper . . . in Oklahoma Territory
THE THRILL OF THE HUNT
Women of the night are meeting unimaginably gruesome ends at the hands of America's very own "Ripper." As the crimes become more horrific, the good people of Oklahoma are thrown into a terrorized frenzy. Enough so that Deputy U.S Marshal Jack Slade must put his vows to marry his fiancée on hold because of the vow he took long ago to protect the people...
The grisly murders may be beyond comprehension, but Slade knows that the killer is within reach. It's the trail of blood he must follow, and the trail of blood he must end, so that no one else falls victim to this "legend"...
#9
Reckoning
2012
A QUEST FOR VENGEANCE
It was the happiest day of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade’s life—until a gang of roughnecks broke it up and shot his bride. Now in a coma, Slade’s bride-to-be faces a slim chance for a full recovery. With his heart broken and filled with vengeance, the Lawman sets out to pursue the gang that broke up his Oklahoma wedding and raided the Cherokee reservation.
Teaming up with Little Wolf, Slade follows the gang south toward Mexico, passing through the perilous areas of Texas. And as Slade attempts to exact justice for his fiancée, The Lawman will be tempted to break any law that stands in the way…
#11
Trackdown
2013
JAILBREAK ON THE TRAIL
U.S. Marshal Jack Slade is tasked with escorting four prisoners to Leavenworth, Kansas. It's a 250-mile, ten-day journey across a hot, barren landscape with only a green deputy to help him keep the outlaws in line—and the brooding thoughts of his troubled relationship with Faith Connover to otherwise occupy his mind.
When some kin of prisoner Fergus Mayfield ambush the marshals and free the convicts, they make one mistake—leaving Slade alive. Badly wounded, horseless, and unarmed, Slade will stop at nothing to survive the dangers of the desert and pursue the escaped outlaws to the ends of the earth...
Authors
Michael Newton
Author · 20 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. From Wikipedia: "Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300. Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006." Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan Bibiliography available here.
