When a Denver lawman is killed in Appaloosa, U.S. Marshall
Virgil Cole and deputy Everett Hitch must track down three
dangerous men as quickly as possible. However, this murder
leaves Virgil and Everett with more questions than answers,
and when a bounty hunter from Virgil's past arrives in
town,
and with a new woman in town catching Everett's eye, things
get even more complicated in this booming mining town.
ROBERT B. PARKER'S BLACKJACK is brought to life by Robert
Knott, adding another excellent story to the Cole and
Hitch
series. Fans won't be disappointed and new readers will
fall
in love with the characters and the setting of the
fictional
Wild West town of Appaloosa. The setting is fantastic, and
everything from buildings to roads, to landscape is
described with just the right words. The descriptions are
short, but Knott knows how to use specific words to bring a
setting to life. The jail and new casino are especially
well
done, and put the reader right into the Wild West.
Virgil with his no nonsense attitude and unflappable
character make him the perfect gun hand and cowboy.
BLACKJACK gets the perfect narrator in Everett, Virgil's
steady and intelligent right-hand man. Allie has been hard
to read in previous novels, but she starts to have a more
likable and genuine personality in ROBERT B. PARKER'S
BLACKJACK. There are two
very surprising characters who enter the story, and they
add a few great twists into the plot. I appreciate that
ROBERT B. PARKER'S BLACKJACK isn't just a straightforward
story, but one with
plot twists, secrets, and a little mystery. If readers are
looking for a gun fighting, gambling, cowboy filled Western
then they should look no further than the thrilling Cole
and
Hitch series with ROBERT B. PARKER'S BLACKJACK being
another outstanding
addition to a page-turning series.
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in
the
gritty new installment of the New York Times–bestselling
series.
Appaloosa, the hometown of Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole
and Everett Hitch, continues to prosper, but with
prosperity
comes a slew of new trouble: carpetbaggers, gamblers,
migrants, peddlers, drifters, thieves, and whores, all
boiling in a cauldron of excess and greed.
And there’s a new menace in town: a wealthy, handsome
easterner—and the owner of Appaloosa’s new casino—Boston
Bill Black.
Boston Bill is flashy and bigger than life. He’s a
prankster
and a notorious womanizer, and with eight notches on the
handle of his Colt, he’s rumored quick on the draw. When he
finds himself wanted for a series of murders, he quickly
vanishes.
Cole and Hitch locate and arrest him, but Boston Bill
escapes once again. Another murder sets the duo on his
trail, eventually taking them back to Appaloosa—where one
woman in particular may, or may not, prove to be the apple
of Boston Bill’s eye.
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