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Zusatztext "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 REVIEWS Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Parker was the author of seventy books, including the legendary Spenser detective series, the novels featuring Police Chief Jesse Stone, and the acclaimed Virgil Cole–Everett Hitch westerns, as well as the Sunny Randall novels. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and long considered the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, he died in January 2010. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In the wild and untamed West, two honorable gunfighters find themselves caught in a gritty battle that threatens the peaceful town of Resolution. After relocating to an Old-West saloon town after the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch is relieved by the arrival of his friend, Virgil Cole. In a place where law and order don’t exist, Hitch and Cole find themselves at the center of a make-shift war against Eamon O’Malley, a greedy mine owner, and his men who threaten to gobble up Resolution's land and businesses. Guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship, Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole fight to defend a coalition of local ranchers and challenge the violently shifting laws of the West.
