Fool's Gold by William W. Johnstone - ISBN: 9780786050758
Paperback
Gold fever ignites a lawless boomtown; one marshal faces deadly vengeance.

Fool's Gold

A Novel of the Gold Rush

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    4 August 2026

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Summary

From the legendary Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century, this is the story of how gold fever turned one small mining camp into a bustling boomtown—with a highly explosive mix of dreamers, schemers, and gun-crazy killers…

Cord Bennett staked his claim in the gold-rich Rio Oro Canyon in 1849 at the dawn of the California Gold Rush. That’s when all hell broke loose. What started as a makeshift mining camp is now a full-blown boomtown—fueled by greed, plagued by grifters, and over…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780786050758
ISBN-10:0786050756
Author:William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Publisher:Kensington Publishing
Imprint:Pinnacle Books,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:4 August 2026
Weight:369g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm
Series:The Forty-Niners
About The Author

William W. Johnstone

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling Western writer in America and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over 50 million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father, and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before serving in the army. He went on to become known as “the Greatest Western writer of the 21st Century.”

J.A. Johnstone learned to write from the master himself, Uncle William W. Johnstone, who began tutoring J.A. at an early age. After-school hours were often spent retyping manuscripts or researching his massive American Western History library as well as the more modern wars and conflicts. J.A. worked hard and learned, later going on to become the co-author of William W. Johnstone’s many bestselling westerns and thrillers. J.A. Johnstone lives on a ranch in Tennessee.

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