Böcker av Langdon Pierce

Tyler Reed would say that he was an up and coming actor, ready to hit the big time, like his friend, Nick Musgrave. He might also say that he let Jillian, the love of his life slip away. But all of that was for naught, when on the set of a Western movie, there was an earthquake and his life got turned upside down. Somehow, he finds himself in the Southwest of 1882, on the floor of a saloon, accused of shooting a dead man and in the company of a gambler named Sam. Not only that, he is mistaken for a well-known gunman, Lin LaSalle. Confusing matters further, Tyler meets up with his best friend, Nick, who is known as Rooster Hayes, an outlaw, and his old girlfriend, Jillian, who is now Jewel. Neither have his best interests at heart. Further complicating things, he finds that he, as Lin LaSalle, has signed up for a Show Down to the Death in Goliad, New Mexico. His opponent is none other than Sam, the gambler who saved his life in Red Rock and keeps him alive in the Old West. And the man who has organized the Show Down is none other than King Cooper, the director on the set of the movie he was filming. Tyler doesn't want to kill or be killed, he only wants to make it back to the 2020's. Meanwhile, he finds himself falling in love with Tatia, an actress traveling with Sam and his wife, Katie. How is he to get back to his future, while becoming more and more the gunman, Lin LaSalle? And how can he do it without killing Sam?

Attending a funeral in St. Louis, Sam Dollar is drawn into a poker game where he wins a horse. Upon collecting the bet, he ends up buying two other horses as well. Which fact leads him to decided to ride back to Arizona after picking up his son, Logan, from school in Austin, Texas. On the road, he comes across a young woman, Madeline Starrett and her daughter, Grace. Upon finding that they were abandoned by her husband's family, Sam knows he must put things right. Especially when he is told they've taken her infant son with them.The Taylor brothers, Curt and Byron run Prospect County. When he is struck on the head by a tree blasted by lightning, Madeline and her daughter are kidnapped by Byron Taylor. Friend's from Sam's past, Slim and Zelda Cavanaugh, take care of him, even while they are avoiding Byron themselves.Concerned by the telegrams he has sent to his wife, Katie, she and his best friend, Hugh O'Hanlon, join Sam. Together, they plan to re-unite the family, as well as bring to justice the men who have taken the law into their own hands. An almost hanging, a fire at the Social Hall and a final meeting with Byron await them. To win, Sam must risk everything: Katie, Logan and his life.

Traveling from Wickenburg on his way to California, the stagecoach is waylaid by Indians and Sam is wounded. Dragged to safety by one of the passengers, they witness another of the passengers, Georges Latrelle, shooting, killing and scalping the driver, messenger and other passengers, to make it look like they were he up by Indians. Sam is too hurt to give testimony and his fellow passenger, Ben Shaw, is in a hurry to get to California, himself. While in Ehrenburg on the Colorado River, Sam is invited to sail on a steamship, the Fortunado, along the coast and around the cape of Baja California. The poker games entice, and the owner of the ship, Alejandro Mateos, intent on making a go of his shipping business, needs his help against pirates. Elizabeth Fourchette, accomplice of Georges, is being squeezed out by Alejandro's sister, Adelita, and she uses poisoned wine to try to get her way. Seeing that he survived the stagecoach robbery, Sam isn't too keen on tracking down the mastermind, Georges Latrelle. However, their paths keep crossing and when Georges tosses him overboard into the Sea of Cortez, that is the last straw. Sam must see this through to the end, even if it takes a Poker Contest in San Francisco to do it.