Honeymaker’s Son by Ray Hogan
Honeymaker’s Son (1975) by Ray Hogan Universally feared yet despised land baron Burl Honeymaker has been bushwhacked, shot in the back by an unknown assassin. Now it’s up to his young estranged son, Tom, to find the killer even as he assumes responsibility of the family ranch and with it, inherits an escalating land war with three other powerful landowners who all want his vast acreage. The question for Tom to answer is, which one of them is willing to kill to get it? Overall Honeymaker's Son is a pretty straightforward western. There’s plenty of gunplay and dastardly potential villains with their personal armies, all ready and willing to take the Honeymaker property by force. Complicating things is an unexpected romance that develops between Tom and the daughter of one of the scheming landowners. Ray Hogan wrote well over 100 books in his career, mostly standalone westerns, though he did pen a couple of wes...