Features the main characters first introduced in Appaloosa- now a major motion picture from New Line Cinema.
A greedy mine owner threatens the coalition of local ranchers in the town of Resolution, pitching two honorable gunfighters, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, into a make-shift war that'll challenge their friendship -and the violently shifting laws of the West. The most memorable Western heroes since Larry McMurtry's...Lonesome Dove. -ASSOCIATED PRESS
A sparse, bullet-riddled rumination on law and order. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A pure pleasure to read. -LIBRARY JOURNAL
A reminder of just how much hardboiled fiction owes the Western. -KIRKUS REVIEWSRobert B. Parker was the author of more than fifty books. He died in January 2010.US