Judging by the regular hits I still get on my post on the first book in the series, a post over two years old, THE LONER seems to be very popular with the readers. It’s climbed to fourth on the list with nearly two thousand visits and increases daily. People seem to want to find the identity of J. A. Johnstone. It explains the background of the series for any interested. I keep updating it with the release of each new book.

He is Conrad Browning, wealthy businessman, who’s mother founded their wealth and he increased after her death. He’s also the son of Frank Morgan, The Drifter, and star of his own series, The Last Gunfighter, who also got half the wealth when Conrad’s mother died.

Several books back, the series took a new direction when Conrad received a letter from his late ex-fiancee, Pamela Tarlton, a vengeful woman who’s fury at Conrad marrying his beloved Rebel instead of her, set Conrad on his period as Kid Morgan while he tracked down and killed her murderers while everyone thought he was also dead. He learned that Pamela was responsible.

Since that time, Conrad had become a wanderer like his father, going by the name Kid Morgan, drifting and helping people that need it against the rogues and outlaws of the west, whether they wore range clothes or business suits.

The letter he received, set up before she died accidentally in one of her many attempts to kill him, told him that she’d been pregnant when he’d left her and he was now the father of twins, a boy and a girl. They had been hidden from him and he’d never find them!

Since that new turn in the series, Conrad had been methodically following every clue he could find, the last real one being seen in Kansas City and headed west from there. He’d stopped at every tow along the way asking questions, with his valet and now friend Arturo, and surviving numerous plots to again kill him, set up and paid for by Pamela or someone else.

Now in Carson City, he gets a clue that points him where he’d already suspected where he might be heading: San Francisco. A note with Pamela’s, five thousand dollars, San Francisco, and the initials D. L. is found.

He’s closer than ever to finding the twins. But more traps await him in the Pacific coast city. But he’s not alone this time. His father, Frank Morgan, shows up halfway through, sent for by Claudius Turnbuckle, head of the law firm that represents the two’s business holdings. The two of them go after the mysterious D. L. and nothing will stop them, not even more of those traps set up to get them.

Lots of action, with Chinese tongs involved as well.

I look forward to the next book.