Law of the Mountain Man (1989) — William W. Johnstone

Zebra | ISBN: 032097005996 | Condition: Used | Sold by Crappy Old Books

In the wild, blood-soaked West of William W. Johnstone’s imagination, justice is rarely served by a judge in robes—it’s more likely to arrive in the form of a bullet, a Winchester, or a mountain man with a personal code carved harder than granite. Law of the Mountain Man (Zebra, 1989) continues the legend of Smoke Jensen, a hero with a name as sharp as his trigger finger and a moral compass that only points toward “don’t mess with me.”

Here, Smoke takes on outlaws, land-grabbers, and assorted villains who really should have read the warning signs before crossing his path. It’s all here: frontier towns on the edge of chaos, barroom brawls with chairs flying like Frisbees, and showdowns where only one gunslinger gets to ride away. Johnstone writes with the subtlety of a dynamite blast and the pace of a horse at full gallop—exactly what you want when the stakes are life, death, and keeping the West wild.

Why this copy?

• Condition: Used. Like a saddle that’s seen plenty of trails: worn but serviceable, carrying a few scuffs that only add to its cowboy charm.

• Zebra 1989 edition. The mass-market paperback as it was meant to be—pulp, punchy, and designed to fit neatly in your back pocket on the long ride home.

• From Crappy Old Books. Sure, we usually sling you medieval chronicles and gloomy philosophy. But sometimes we saddle up with a six-shooter paperback that smells faintly of campfire smoke and cheap whiskey.

Specs at a glance

• Author: William W. Johnstone

• Title: Law of the Mountain Man

• Publisher: Zebra, 1989

• ISBN: 032097005996

• Condition: Used

This isn’t literature that broods or lingers—it rides hard, shoots straight, and gets the job done. If you like your morality simple, your heroes taciturn, and your villains begging for frontier justice, this is the trail you want to follow.

Warning: may cause sudden urges to chew tobacco, tip your hat at strangers, or resolve minor household disputes via high noon showdowns in the garden.

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