Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan Stark, Army Scout | 2018 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
| 2 | Trigger Happy | 2021 | J.A. Johnstone | Buy |
The Nathan Stark series features a frontier Army scout in two books: Nathan Stark, Army Scout (2018) and Trigger Happy (2021). Stark is the kind of man the Army relies on when they need someone who knows the territory and is not afraid of a fight. He scouts ahead of military columns, tracks hostiles, and gets into the kind of trouble that only someone who spends his time in contested frontier country would encounter.
Two books makes this one of the shorter Johnstone series, but the Army scout premise gives it a different feel from the typical cowboy or gunfighter setup. Stark operates in that space between the military world and the frontier world, answering to officers but doing his best work alone in the field. It is a niche within the Western genre that does not get explored as often as it should.