The New York Times-bestselling author?s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.
Putnam
June 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
304 pages ISBN: 039915504X EAN: 9780399155048 Hardcover Add to Wish List
“I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when
I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to
develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the
saloon with the shotgun in my lap for two peaceful nights.
On my third night it was different. I could almost smell the
trouble beginning to cook . . . .”
After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch
heads in the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old
West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It’s the kind
of town that doesn’t have much in the way of commerce,
except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill
repute. Hitch takes the job as lookout at Amos Wolfson’s
Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as
protector of the ladies who work the backrooms—as well as a
man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the
O’Malley copper mine.
Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman,
tensions continue to mount, so that even the self-assured
Hitch is relieved by the arrival in town of his friend
Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O’Malley threatens
the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up
Resolution’s fee businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves
in the middle of a makeshift war between O’Malley’s men and
the ranchers. In a place where law and order don’t exist,
Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of
duty, honor, and friendship.
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