The Empty Land (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures) - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Our foremost storyteller of the American West,  Louis L’Amour  has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world. Klappentext As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn can't afford to be outmaneuvered. For as the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and murder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can mean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any move could be their last. Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1 and Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2, Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L'Amour's never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish. Leseprobe Chapter 1 In Europe, Pope Gregory the Great had died, in Ireland the Golden Age of scholarship was at its height, and on the Continent the Merovingian kings ruled much of what is now Germany and France. In Southeast Asia the little kingdom of Champa, now called South Vietnam, was locked in a life-and-­death struggle for its independence, with China and what is now North Vietnam. It was the seventh century, and the great T’ang dynasty was rising in China, while across the Asian continent a relatively unknown young man named Mohammed sat meditating in Mecca, conceiving the religious teachings that were to dominate civilization for the next seven hundred years. In what was someday to be known as western Utah, a hungry coyote trotted across a barren slope. The coyote had no awareness of history beyond the memory of where his food had been obtained in the past, nor had he any realization of the sequence of events he was soon to start in motion, a sequence that was to enrich several men and at least one woman, and was to bring sudden and violent death by bullet or blade to at least forty men. All of that lay more than eleven hundred years in the future, but it was the coyote that began it. The desert slope across which the coyote trotted was no different to the eye from a thousand other such slopes, falling steeply away to a boulder-­strewn wash that remained dry except after the infrequent rains, when it might run six to eight feet deep with rushing water, only to dwindle away to nothing in an hour or so. The slope itself was a litter of sand, broken rock, low-­growing brush and an occasional juniper. ...

Product details

• Authors: Louis L'Amour
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780593160091
• ISBN: 978-0-593-16009-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 173 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature