William S. Brady

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2022
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Hawk

Blood Kin ()
Death & Jack Shade ()
Fools Gold ()
The Sudden Guns ()
The Widowmaker - Dead Man's Hand ()
Hawk (Sep-2022)
Dead Man's Hand (Oct-2024)
Sierra Gold (Jan-2025)

Peacemaker

1000 Dollar Death ()
Comanche ()
The Lost ()
War Party ()

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Comanche!

    War taught him to kill …to stay alive!John T. McLain had nothing left in Missouri. His wife was dead, his farm was burned out.The Civil War taught him the bloody art of killing, and now he was alone. He owned a brace of Colt Dragoons pistols, a...

  • Hawk

    Hawk

  • Outlaws

    McLain went to Texas looking for a new life. The outlaws drifting down saw only the pickings. And only one way to take them - with a gun. It didn’t matter who stood in their way: they’d learnt their deadly trade in the bloody fighting of ...

  • Whiplash

    McLain came to Texas to find peace - and stayed to enforce it with his Colt’s Dragoon pistols and his Sharp’s carbine.Zac Moffat came with a stockwhip and a gang of renegades, to take what he could by terror when it worked - by cold-blood...

  • Blood Money

    When Jared Hawk helped the black gunman, Aaron Turner, bring in a wanted man it was one more job - a few extra dollars in his pocket. He didn't know he was riding into the hellfire center of a range war. Nor that he'd find himself on the other side, ...

  • Death's Bounty

    Jared Hawk rode into Santa Maria on the trail of a Mexican outlaw with a $1,000 bounty on his head.He didn’t know he was riding into a revenge war between the Mexicans and the Apache Nation—until the people of Santa Maria offered him one ...

  • Lynch Law!

    There wasn’t much law in the Rio Verde Valley—not beyond what a man carried holstered on his gunbelt. And the men who left Mary Koch raped and dead thought they were beyond justice—They hadn’t counted on John T. McLain.McLain ...

  • Killing Time

    The hangman’s rope!Jared Hawk stank of death. It hung about him like gunsmoke and the sour smell of drying blood. He thought he’d take life easy for a while: enjoy whisky and women and nothing more. Leave his Colt .45 in its greased holst...

  • Bloodrun!

    The stagecoach was a lifeline. It linked Garrison with the other Texas border towns. It brought new blood and new money. And raiders! Their trade was death, paid in blood and bullets. John T. McLain was Garrison's duly elected marshal. It was his dut...



  • War-Party!

    War smoke shaded the sky over Garrison the color of death. The Comanche were massing for a vengeance war. And a crazy white man was preaching a crusade of slaughter against the tribes that would bring holocaust to the Texas border. One man stood betw...

  • One-Thousand Dollar Death

    The warriors of the Comanche nation ringed Garrison. Inside the town John T. McLain was sitting on $1,000 in stolen money and a vengeance-bent outlaw called Hondo John Montrose. Hondo John left the lawman with a bullet in him and ran with the money. ...

  • The Gates of Death

    The gates of death open!The bull was big and black and deadly … 1700 pounds of pure killing machine. One man had already spilled his guts out over those horns … and his friends wanted revenge.That didn't matter to Hawk. One thousand dolla...

  • Desperadoes

    Jared Hawk wasn’t looking for a fight. Not until the marshal at Eagle Pass decided his woman was looking too long at the gunfighter, and threw Hawk in jail.It was pure chance that the Kincaid gang chose then to raid the town. And the marshal ma...

  • Shoot-Out!

    The gun was the Colt Single Action Army model of 1873. It was the first handgun to utilize brass-jacketed cartridges. It was the gun that became known as The Peacemaker. John T. McLain wanted the gun … This peacemaker was the gun that would tam...

  • The Widowmaker

    Women spell trouble ... Kidnap spells death!The Willard brothers didn’t know what they were letting themselves in for when theytook Ben King’s wife off the train. She was beautiful and her husband was rich …Rich enough to hire Jared...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Hawk

    It was just another poker game, until Hawk drew the dead man’s hand. Aces and eights, the hand Hickok was holding when he went down in a hail of bullets. The hand that meant somebody was going to die …Hawk wasn’t the one who died th...

  • Sierra Gold

    Hawk

    Hawk didn’t know it, but they were waiting for him. A pack of killers in amongst the shadows and the skeleton bones of the ghost town.A killer in black leather with a blade swift as death—A crazy albino with a laugh like a jackal and bloo...

  • Killer's Breed

    Hawk was just passing through Santa Rosa …Until outlaws hit the bank and he left them spilling blood on the street.Charles Sweeney owned most of the town—he needed a man like Hawk to carry $20,000 through to Tucson.But Sweeney’s wif...

  • Border War

    Jesus Martinez was worth $1,000 to Jared Hawk—dead.The Mexican had killed Matthew Kilpatrick. The dead man’s daughter hired Hawk to bring her the Mexican’s corpse.That kind of meeting had only one outcome. And only one survivor R...



  • Killer!

    When the kid stepped out of the shadows and called him killer, Hawk didn’t have a lot of choice. It was kill or be killed—but it didn’t end there. They came after him from all quarters, deadly gunslingers with only blood and money m...

  • 1000 Dollar Death

    • / Historical
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    Peacemaker

  • Blood Kin

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy
    Hawk

    The settlers at Rising Star just about had enough of James Hunter and his bullying ways. They turned to Jared Hawk to clean up their town. It took Laura Friedman to persuade Hawk to pin on their marshal’s badge. When he did, he promised to deal...

  • Comanche

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy
    Peacemaker

  • Death & Jack Shade

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy
    Hawk

    They said Jack Shade killed his first man when he was fifteen. That he robbed his first bank when he was a year older. That he had more notches on his Colts than he had years. Jack Shade was a man you didn’t cross—and stay alive!Jared Haw...

  • Fools Gold

    • / Historical
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    Hawk

  • Hawk 05: Fool's Gold

    • / Historical
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    Jared Hawk wasn’t looking for a fight. But he wasn’t walking away when the Mexican called him out … he killed the pistolero.He didn’t know the man’s brother headed an outlaw gang working the Border country. But he had be...

  • The Lost

    • / Historical
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    Peacemaker

    The Comanche took the girl off a looted stage. They killed her mother but they made the mistake of leaving her father alive under the Texan sun. He lived long enough to tell John T. McLain about the raid, and McLain wasn’t the kind of man to le...

  • The Sudden Guns

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy
    Hawk

    Jared Hawk was a gunfighter. His talent for killing was up for hire – if the price was right. His code was simple: stay alive to deliver the goods and collect the dues, and don’t step aside for any man.Philip Garrett hired Hawk to take hi...

  • War Party

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy
    Peacemaker



  • The Widowmaker - Dead Man's Hand

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy
    Hawk

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William S. Brady has published 30 books.

The next book by William S. Brady, Killer!, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by William S. Brady, Comanche!, was published in April 2022.

Yes. William S. Brady has 2 series.
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