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October 2015
On Sale: October 13, 2015
ISBN: 8293326549
EAN: 9788293326540
Kindle: B0135MRROQ
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Western
A bloody, darkly funny western noir that keeps company with
the best of Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy. “A savage, horrifying and gut-bustingly funny Western, set
in an Old West that would have made John Wayne turn and run
for his life and featuring a cast of characters so richly
imagined I'm afraid they'll turn up in my nightmares. I
loved every word of it.”—Scott Phillips, New York Times
bestselling author of The Ice Harvest It's the fall of 1882. Kentucky, the land of dark and bloody
ground as the Indians called it, has far from recovered from
the Civil War. The small town of Mercy, a rest stop for the
emotionally and physically disfigured drifters left over
from the war, will soon pay the price of the violence
inherent in American culture, and the racisim still palpable
throughout the hills and hollers of rural Kentucky. The first sign of doom arrives on horseback: three outlaws
wanted in Virginia and other parts for robbery and murder. A
beautiful, tomboyish white young woman with blue tattoos on
her face, markings from her time as a captive of Apaches; a
former slave whose days of cowtowing to polite white society
are over, and the most deadly and mysterious, the motley
gang's leader, Tompal Banks. But the source of Mercy's impending doom, the rioting and
bloodshed that touch the lives of every resident, from the
alcoholic Marshal to the haunted Mayor, will come from
within the community, incited by the apocalyptic gospel
spoken by the syphilitic Reverend Thurman on the Banks of
the Ohio to his congregation of repressed sexual deviants
and bloodthirsty war veterans.
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