Ben Haas Books in Order

One of Haas's early Southern novels, this story looks at people trying to make a life close to the land while older social pressures still hold them in place. The mood is quieter, but the human tensions run deep.

A nonfiction look at the Ku Klux Klan, written before Haas became best known for paperback westerns. It traces the group's violence and influence with a direct, unsparing focus on the history behind the myth.

Rae Marsh rides to the Circle M to claim the share of a ranch left to him by the father he never knew. Instead of a new life, he finds family conflict, gun trouble, and an old outlaw reputation.

Two boys, one white and one Black, grow up close in the South and return from World War II to stand on opposite sides of the civil rights struggle. Haas turns their broken friendship into a wide, forceful Southern novel.

A blunt, retired general goes back to his Appalachian home, starts writing his memoirs, and finds himself fighting a plan to flood nearby virgin land. It is part family story, part environmental battle, part reckoning with age.

Set over one uneasy summer, this early Ben Haas novel follows young characters through a season of change, worry, and hard choices. It is more understated than his westerns, but the emotional pressure is real.

Haas moves away from the American frontier here, but not from danger. Set against a tense European backdrop, this thriller runs on political pressure, pursuit, and the sense that violence is always one step away.

An actress hires Fargo to find her estranged husband in Alaska, but the missing man is tied to valuable land and a brutal local power structure. The frozen setting adds a strong survival edge to the hunt.

In 1914 Texas, rancher Sam Ramsey pursues horse thieves into the brutal Big Bend country and joins forces with a Black veteran named Concho. Their rescue mission becomes a tense desert struggle for survival.

This series opener introduces Neal Fargo, a hard, restless gunman who hires himself out for the jobs other men avoid. On the Mexican border, revolution and greed give him exactly the kind of trouble he lives for.

A dangerous transport job draws a hard man into border intrigue, shifting alliances, and a chase that never lets up. It reads like a thriller, but with the grit and physical danger of a western.

Fargo is paid to escort Jade Ching across a war-torn stretch of the Philippines toward an arranged marriage she does not want. The journey becomes a dangerous test of loyalty, money, and conscience.

Soldier of fortune Cleve Buckner is building a private army in Central America, and Fargo is paid to stop him before the Panama Canal can be destroyed. It is a big job, even by Fargo standards.

The Mexicans need guns, Fargo needs money, and smuggling arms past cavalry patrols already sounds bad enough. Then the real trouble arrives, the last dangerous Mescalero Apaches roaming the mountains.

An exile's search for safety or revenge pulls him through a landscape of shifting loyalties and armed pursuit. Haas gives the story a thriller pace while keeping the stakes personal and immediate.

Fargo rides into the East Texas oil boom and takes sides against a ruthless tycoon trying to crush a rival claim. The result is a rough mix of drilling war, gunfights, and frontier capitalism at full speed.

A trail job turns into a brutal ordeal where bad country, bad men, and bad luck keep piling up. Haas plays the title straight and delivers a hard western about endurance under relentless pressure.

Fargo lands in another hot spot where money, livestock, and pride are enough to start a shooting war. Haas keeps it lean and dirty, with hard riding, ambushes, and one more job turning nastier than expected.

Sundance crosses a harsh lava country where the landscape is as deadly as the men hunting him. The setting gives this adventure a grim survival edge alongside the usual gunplay, pursuit, and frontier tension.

After Fargo's mining partner is murdered, the man's daughter is kidnapped, and Fargo is left for dead, the chase turns vicious. Badly hurt and stripped of his gear, he still goes after the killers.

Spanning three generations, this Southern family saga follows Bolivar Chandler from post-Civil War poverty in North Carolina to the top of a cotton empire. It is one of Haas's biggest and most ambitious novels.

Lucius Calhoon rides from South Carolina to Texas with one purpose, revenge on the man who tortured him. That obsession drives a fierce western that also opens the larger Rancho Bravo saga.

Sundance moves through a raw, contested frontier where the law is thin and every alliance feels temporary. Haas uses the Dakota setting for a hard western of pursuit, suspicion, and sudden eruptions of violence.

Jim Sundance rides into a brutal frontier trap where rough country, hard men, and divided loyalties turn a routine job into a fight for survival. It is a lean western built on pursuit, ambush, and close-range violence.

Half-Cheyenne gunman Jim Sundance is hired to recover a rich man's daughter and the gold taken with her. The job sends him into violent country, where Army officers, outlaws, and frontier politics all collide.

Fargo takes on the thirty-man Canfield clan, a job so lopsided it would scare off almost anyone else. What follows is a brutal running fight of ambushes, hard shooting, and one-man-war determination.

A bold woman from Catscratch throws a frontier scheme off balance and forces the men around her to rethink every move. Haas mixes romance, danger, and western mischief without softening the action.

Coming down from the Big Horns, John Cutler wants rest, not trouble. Instead he is dragged into a deadly fight involving a violent clan, a terrorized town, and a predator waiting in the dark.

Sundance runs into professional gunmen and a job that turns deadly fast. It is a stripped-down western about quick draws, shifting loyalties, and a hero who knows exactly how ugly the frontier can get.

John Cutler is brought in to deal with a rogue wolf stalking the range, a job that quickly becomes more than a simple animal hunt. Haas turns the chase into a harsh frontier survival story.

Sundance is pulled into a vicious revenge hunt where the title promise tells you exactly how ugly things may get. The book is fast, hard, and driven by pursuit through unforgiving country.

A frontier town with a violent name gets the kind of trouble it promises. Haas delivers a tight western of grudges, shifting alliances, and gun smoke, where survival depends on who draws first and who thinks fastest.

Daisy Canfield's murder during a summer theater season on North Carolina's Outer Banks still haunts the town years later. Haas turns the case into a moody Southern mystery about memory, gossip, and buried truth.

A pursuit story stripped to essentials, this one sends Sundance after a target who will not come quietly. Haas keeps the focus on pressure, terrain, and the grim effort of bringing a dangerous man in.

Fargo is hired to protect a Roosevelt-backed expedition running the wild Colorado River. The rapids are deadly enough, but the real danger waits along the banks in the hands of old gunfighters and raiders.

Sundance rides into the shadow of Little Big Horn, where the coming collision between the Army and Native nations hangs over every move. It mixes frontier action with the tension of a famous historical moment.

A trail job and a string of dangerous encounters push Sundance deeper into rough country and rougher company. It is a classic Haas western, lean on padding and strong on motion, pressure, and fights that hurt.

Fear and unrest spread across the plains as Sundance gets pulled into violence surrounding the Ghost Dance movement. It is a hard western about desperation, belief, and the danger of men who want control.

Wild horse country becomes the center of another dangerous Sundance job. Haas mixes speed, open-country action, and stubborn frontier personalities in a story where freedom, profit, and survival keep colliding.

Fargo rides into a savage job marked by pursuit, deception, and the feel of a hunt gone feral. This one leans hard into wilderness danger and the ruthless men waiting at the end of it.

Accused of treachery and nearly executed by Pancho Villa's forces, Fargo is shoved into a secret mission across northern Mexico. German meddling, betrayal, and a dangerous traveling companion keep the pressure high.

Rancho Bravo's partners are trying to turn wild cattle into a real empire, but the big drive becomes a test of nerve, leadership, and survival. Dust, distance, and attacks from all sides keep the pressure high.

Sundance is drawn into a spreading conflict where war fever, mistrust, and revenge threaten everyone in the line of fire. It is a rough, fast western that keeps its focus on survival and divided loyalties.

Sundance faces the kind of man the frontier keeps producing, someone who turns killing into paid work and pride into bloodshed. The novel builds around pursuit, betrayal, and the grim math of who reaches the target first.

A lawman story about the weight of a badge, where duty keeps colliding with frontier politics and personal risk. Haas builds it around pursuit, pressure, and the cost of trying to stay straight in crooked country.

Violence spills wide across open country as Sundance gets caught in another escalating fight. The prairie setting gives the story room for pursuit, ambush, and the kind of sudden brutality Haas wrote so well.

Fargo is hired to help a small railroad being sabotaged by a larger rival. He answers with a private war of counter-sabotage, assassination attempts, and a final fight that barrels toward disaster on the tracks.

Fargo walks into another paid killing job that quickly turns personal when the night hunt begins. Set against harsh country and harsher men, it is a compact adventure full of traps, pursuit, and retaliation.

Sundance is pushed into a relentless pursuit where every mile adds pressure and every delay costs lives. It is a straight chase story sharpened by danger, suspicion, and frontier grit.

A bad situation gets worse fast, forcing Sundance to fight, retreat, and improvise in equal measure. The book keeps moving, balancing gunfire, harsh country, and the constant sense that safety will not last.

Sundance follows a trail already marked by fear, vengeance, and the threat of wider conflict. It is a spare, hard western focused on movement, survival, and the people trapped between rival forces.

Fargo heads into the Dakota badlands, where rough country and harder men turn paid trouble into a deadly test of endurance. It is a harsh, fast-moving adventure built on pursuit, treachery, and sudden violence.

A struggle over guns, power, and survival pulls Sundance into another bloody frontier showdown. It is lean, fast, and full of close-range fights, with the tools of the West at the heart of the conflict.

Sundance takes a dangerous escort job that puts him between desperate men and open country with nowhere to hide. Fast ambushes and divided loyalties keep the pressure on all the way through.

Sundance faces a threat that is harder to track because it rarely shows itself openly and never fights fair. The result is a tense frontier story built on suspicion, patience, and sudden violence.

Set in the Vienna Woods before and during World War II, this novel follows lives tangled by love, politics, and the rise of Hitler. Haas keeps the history intimate by showing what it does to specific people.

Former horse thief Shan Tyree thinks Rancho Bravo might be his chance to go straight and finally belong somewhere. Then an old partner returns, a new horse deal turns risky, and Tyree's fresh start begins to crack.

When bandits ambush the Rancho Bravo wagons, steal a fortune, and carry off Jenny, Philip Killraine goes after them with murder on his mind. It becomes a revenge hunt against impossible odds.

Elias Whitton, once enslaved and now a partner in Rancho Bravo, has promised guns and supplies to the Comanches for the winter. When the wagon train goes missing, killers and desperation close in on every side.

Neal Fargo rides into a hard-country job where old hatreds, ambushes, and brutal terrain close in fast. The only way out is through the men who think they own the valley.

This posthumous autobiographical manuscript offers a direct look at Haas's childhood, early jobs, and long push toward a writing career. It is especially valuable for readers curious about how a prolific professional author worked.