Unguarded Moment / Horse Heaven (Louis L'Amour)

About this book

Unguarded Moment Arthur Fordyce is an ordinary man blessed with a budding career a lovely fiancee and a sunny future. He is hardly a criminal-until he finds a wallet stuffed with money at the racetrack. In one "unguarded moment " he removes the cash and throws the billfold away-unaware that he is being watched by a petty crook named Bill Chafey. Unscrupulous and conniving Chafey approaches Fordyce to demand a payoff. And Arthur Fordyce frightened and guilty takes his first step toward a downward spiral of violence duplicity and near ruin. Horse Heaven When Jim Locklin pays his brother George a visit he finds George missing his horse ranch taken over by his brothers estranged wife and a shifty gambler named Chance Varrow who seems to have become a permanent visitor. As Jims suspictions build they center on one person Varrow whose relationship with Georges wife Amie is a little too close for comfort. Taking matters into his own hands Jim vows to find out the truth no matter what the cost. In the end it will all come down to just two men and only one will walk away.