| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780425204320 | | Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group | | Publish Date: 6/6/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202030246 | | Item#: R4XK2V | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.75H x 4.25L x 1T | | Pages: 304 |
|
|
|
| | | This "New York Times" bestseller is a richly imagined novel of the Old West that tells the tale of two gunmen who arrive in the lawless town of Appaloosa, where the actions of a renegade rancher have already taken their toll.
Annotation:
Taking a break from his popular Spenser series, Robert B. Parker exchanges the streets of present-day Boston for the dusty trails of a 19th-century mining town in this hard-bitten tale of the Wild West. Virgil Cole is the new marshal in Appaloosa, and he and his deputy, Everett Hitch, are tasked with dealing out justice to rancher Randall Bragg, a notorious thief of both supplies and women who is responsible for the shooting deaths of the town's previous lawmen.
| PraiseKirkus
"The dialogue shines with a Western drawl in this admirably plotted change of pace from Parker....[W]onderful stuff." (starred review) 03/15/2005Publishers Weekly
"[Parker] takes total control of the [Western] genre....What he does...to magnificent effect, is invest classic tropes with fresh vigor....[O]ne of his finest books to date." (starred review) 03/28/2005 |
| Author Bio| Robert B. Parker | | Robert B. Parker is best known for his mystery novels featuring Private Detective Spenser. While investigating homicides and tracking down serial killers, Detective Spenser travels throughout Boston and New England in search of answers. Not surprisingly, Robert Parker has spent most of his life in New England. In 1954, Parker graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. In 1957 he received his master's degree in English from Boston University. In addition to writing mystery novels, Parker has worked as an Army radioman, a technical and advertising writer, and a college English teacher. |
| |
|
|
__USERID__
http://www.buy.com/prod/Appaloosa/q/loc/106/202030246.html
|
