"L'Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often with
a desert heat wave boiling up from a sun-baked paragraph. A master storyteller....for reading under the
stars."Kirkus Reviews

A Man Called Trent opens on nester Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was killed by King Bill Hales
riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned
by a man called Trent, an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to escape his reputation as a gunfighter.


Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), born in Jamestown, North Dakota, began his career as a writer in the 1940s and became a best-selling author of more than one hundred books that were authentic portrayals of frontier life. More than thirty of his books formed the basis of films. In 1983, he was awarded a National Gold Medal by the U.S. Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 he received the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation.

Austin native Jim Gough's distinctive voice is well known in the Southwest through his hundreds of commercials and radio shows. He has also appeared in feature films including Urban Cowboy, Places in the Heart, and JFK. When not entertaining folks with his western swing band, The Cosmopolitan Cowboys, Jim is recording audiobooks and writing.