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Bullet for a Stranger
- Red Ryan Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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- Angela Richardson
- 15-03-23
Make this into a Movie!!!
I love Johnstone Westerns. I started out reading all the preacher books. I voided these red Ryan series because I didn’t know how interesting and Overland stage series would be. I found it to be highly entertaining, humorous, and interesting.
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- Ethan justice
- 14-02-23
Great!!
Awesome book great story with great detail and the narrator is easy to listen to
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- C. Fry
- 07-01-22
This was like 5 stories in one book
I enjoyed the first one in the series better than this one. It was almost as if whoever (never have believed J.A. is so prolific a writer) wrote this had a bunch of short stories to put together in one book. It wandered an awful lot from one bad guy to the next. Certain parts were of it was just too unbelievable to keep my interest, but overall it was good listen.
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- Brianna B.
- 29-01-21
absolutely awesome story
Never a dull moment. First book I have read from start to finish and it was absolutely incredible. NO SPOILERS FROM ME. 😂😂
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- MHJ
- 23-01-21
Story fine but
The Red Ryan series is my favorite of Johnstone’s but of his readers, this is my least favorite and it takes away from story enjoyment. Slow and boring, almost monotone.