Tombstone, The Luke Starbuck Novels

Name: Tombstone, The Luke Starbuck Novels
Author: Matt Braun

From “a master storyteller of frontier history,” a private investigator makes his reputation in the Arizona territory when he goes up against Wyatt Earp (Elmer Kelton, author of The Good Old Boys).

In 1878, a struggling prospector found silver in the jagged mountains of Arizona. Within a year the town of Tombstone was filling up with merchants, tradesmen, gamblers, whores, gunslingers and, eventually, Wyatt Earp.

When Earp arrives in Tombstone, nothing is ever the same. Along with Doc Holliday and a band of thieves, he turns the Arizona territory into his personal stomping grounds until Wells Fargo puts an end to a string of savage stage robberies. With the legend of the OK Corral shoot-out fanning out across the frontier, private detective Luke Starbuck is sent to Tombstone on a mission: To learn the truth about Wyatt Earp. And to lay his legend to rest

“Braun is one of the best.” —Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

“He tells it straight—and he tells it well.” —Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom

Matt Braun

Matt Braun is the author of more than thirty books and the winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for his novel The Kincaids. A “true Westerner,” he was born in Oklahoma and is the descendent of a long line of ranchers. He writes with a passion for historical accuracy and detail that has earned him a reputation as the most authentic portrayer of the American West.

Braun continues to travel the West, gathering materials for his novels. The Second Coming of Lucas Brokaw is his first flight into contemporary fiction and has been optioned for development as a theatrical motion picture.