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Lyle Brandt
AuthorBio
Ralph Compton stood six foot eight without his boots. He worked as a musician, a radio announcer, a songwriter, and a newspaper columnist. His first novel, The Goodnight Trail, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best debut novel. He was the USA Today bestselling author of the Trail of the Gunfighter series, the Border Empire series, the Sundown Rider series, and the Trail Drive series, among others.Lyle Brandt is a pen name of writer Michael Newton, author of 252 novels (54 of them Westerns, 21 as "Brandt"), 98 nonfiction books, and 91 nonfiction articles published since 1977. Writing as "Brandt," Newton won the Western Fictioneers' first Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel in 2010, for Manhunt. Another "Brandt" novel, Avenging Angels, was a Peacemaker Best Novel finalist in 2011, as well as being a Best Paperback Original finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award. In 2017 Newton received a Lifetime Achievement Peacemaker Award from Western Fictioneers. Terror Trail is his third novel in Ralph Compton's Trail Drive Series, preceded by The Badlands Trail and Drive for Independence.
Lyle Brandt Books
Ralph Compton Terror Trail
Lyle BrandtRalph Compton Drive for Independence
Lyle BrandtRalph Compton The Badlands Trail
Lyle BrandtRough Justice
Lyle BrandtThe Lawman: Trackdown
Lyle BrandtSmugglers' Gold
Lyle BrandtThe Lawman: White Lightning
Lyle BrandtThe Lawman: Reckoning
Lyle BrandtThe Lawman
Lyle Brandt