EDGE: Vengeance at Ventura
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He gazed out from under his hooded lids at Crane on the depot boardwalk and then across the street to where the miners had emerged on to the stoop of Regan’s Place.
‘Dug enough holes for one day,’ he said evenly. ‘That’s for whoever buries him.’
‘That all you got to say?’ the uniformed Crane growled.
‘What else is there, feller?’
‘A whole lot, mister. If you wanted. But you ain’t the talkin’ kind, are you?’
Edge looked again across the street to where the group of miners stood silently out front of Regan’s Place. And answered: ‘Not the only one it seems. Appears the art of conversation is as dead as he is. Yet it ain’t happened yet.’
‘What ain’t happened?’ Crane asked sourly.
Edge heeled his horse forward and looked from the dead old timer to the sun-bright sky. Said: Telly vision.’
VENGEANCE AT VENTURA
The EDGE series
by George G. Gilman available from Lobo Publications:
EDGE I: THE LONER
EDGE 2: TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AMERICAN
EDGE 3: APACHE DEATH
EDGE 4: KILLERS BREED
EDGE 5: BLOOD ON SILVER
EDGE 6: THE BLUE. THE GREY AND THE RED
EDGE 7: CALIFORNIA KILLING
EDGE 8: SEVEN OUT OF HELL
EDGE 9: BLOODY SUMMER
EDGE 10: VENGEANCE IS BLACK
EDGE 11: SIOUX UPRISING
EDGE 12: THE BIGGEST BOUNTY
EDGE 13: A TOWN CALLED HATE
EDGE 14: THE BIG GOLD
EDGE 15: BLOOD RUN
EDGE 16: THE FINAL SHOT
EDGE 17: VENGEANCE VALLEY
EDGE 18: TEN TOMBSTONES TO TEXAS
EDGE 19: ASHES AND DUST
EDGE 20: SULLIVAN’S LAW
EDGE 21: RHAPSODY IN RED
EDGE 22: SLAUGHTER ROAD
EDGE 23: ECHOES OF WAR
EDGE 24: THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIED
EDGE 25: VIOLENCE TRAIL
EDGE 26: SAVAGE DAWN
EDGE 27: DEATH DRIVE
EDGE 28: EVE OF EVIL
EDGE 29: THE LIVING, THE DYING AND THE DEAD
EDGE 30: WAITING FOR A TRAIN
EDGE 31: THE GUILTY ONES
EDGE 32: THE FRIGHTENED GUN
EDGE 33: THE HATED
EDGE 34: A RIDE IN THE SUN
EDGE 35: DEATH DEAL
EDGE 36: TOWN ON TRIAL
EDGE MEETS ADAM STEELE: TWO OF A KIND
EDGE 37: VENGEANCE AT VENTURA