Rock Island Robbery, (Paperback)

<p>ROCK ISLAND ROBBERY</p><p><strong>A gritty Western thriller in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry</strong></p><p>April 3, 1895. The Oklahoma Territory. Five desperate outlaws stop a southbound Rock Island train in a robbery that will seal their fates.</p><p>Tulsa Jack Blake and the notorious Wild Bunch-Bill Doolin, Red Buck Waightman, Bitter Creek Newcomb, and Charley Pierce-storm an express car in a hail of gunfire, terrorizing passengers and crew in their ruthless pursuit of payroll money. What should have been an easy score turns into a blood-soaked nightmare of violence, betrayal, and survival.</p><p>Told in the hard-boiled style of Elmore Leonard, <strong>ROCK ISLAND ROBBERY</strong> is an unflinching portrayal of the Old West's dying days, where lawless men ride hard, shoot first, and discover that some prices are too high to pay-even for outlaws with nothing left to lose.</p><p>From the first gunshot to the final desperate escape across the brutal Oklahoma prairie, this is outlaw fiction at its rawest: no redemption, no heroes, just hard men making harder choices as Deputy Marshal William Bartling Murrill closes in for the kill.</p><p><em>Based on the true story of one of the Wild Bunch's final robberies, twenty-four hours before the law caught up with Tulsa Jack Blake.</em></p><p><strong>Five outlaws. One train. Seventy-four dollars. Some jobs aren't worth the bullet.</strong></p>

• Rock Island Robbery, (Paperback)
• Author: Grand Ozarks Media
• ISBN: 9798295609848
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-02-05
• Page Count: 42