Support Your Local Deputy [Dramatized Adaptation]

J.A. Johnstone · William W. Johnstone

Jun 2020 · Cotton Pickens Book 6 · Graphic Audio · Narrated by A Full Cast, Alyssa Wilmoth, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Daniel Sonntag, David Coyne, David Jourdan, Dylan Lynch, Elisabeth Demery, Eric Messner, Evan Casey, Gregory Gorton, James Keegan, James Konicek, Jeff Allin, Ken Jackson, Matthew Basset, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Patrick Bussink, Ren Casey, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, and Tim Pabon

About this audiobook

Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before breakfast.
Cotton Pickens got where he is by virtue of a quick draw and slow wit. He knows the difference between lawbreakers you have to lock up...and the kind you might as well just let go. Deputy Rusty Irons, though, ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. Someone kidnapped Rusty's mail order brides. They were probably doing Irons a favor, but a deputy in love is blind.
As for the carny barkers, medicine show con artists and revival-meeting fly-by-nighters who pass through Doubtful...Cotton just tries to keep the traveling hucksters moving. But in one terrible moment it all goes to hell. That's when Doubtful explodes in a frenzy of killing and bloodshed. That's when a lawman like Cotton earns his pay by looking evil straight in the eye. Of course, there's also the matter of keeping his new deputy alive and in one piece.

About the author

William W. Johnstone was born in Southern Missouri on October 28, 1938. He quit school when he was fifteen to join a carnival, but went back and finished high school in 1957. He worked as a deputy sheriff, spent time in the army, and then went into radio broadcasting, where he worked for sixteen years. He started writing in 1970, but was his first book, The Devil's Kiss, was not published until late 1979. He wrote over 200 books during his lifetime including the Ashes series, Code Name series, Mountain Man series, The First Mountain Man series, and Eagles series. Two of his books, Eagle Down and Dagger, were written under the pen name of William Mason. He died on February 8, 2004 at the age of 65.