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The extraordinary new Western from the New York Times - bestselling author, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk.
The new chief is Amos Callico: a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man with his eye on the governorship-and perhaps the presidency-he wants Cole and Hitch on his side. But they can't be bought, which upsets him mightily.
When Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch. But the guns for hire are thorns in the side of the power-hungry chief. When they are forced to fire on the trigger-happy son of a politically connected landowner, Callico sees his dream begin to crumble. There will be a showdown-but who'll be left standing?
Author Notes
Robert Brown Parker is an American fiction writer of mysteries. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and earned his BA degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He went on to earn his master's degree in English literature from Boston University. He started his career working in advertising. After some years, he went back to school to earn his PhD in English from Boston University in 1971. He then began his writng career while teaching at Northeastern University. He decided to become a full-time writer in 1979. His most popular works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. The ABC Television Network developed the television series "Spenser: For Hire", based on the character in the mid-1980s. Parker also wrote nine novels based on the character Jesse Stone and six novels based on the character Sunny Randall.
On January 18, 2010, Robert Parker died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This excellent posthumous western from bestseller Parker (1932-2010) continues the saga of gun-slinging saddle pals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch (after Brimstone) as they trade wisecracks and hot lead with back-shooting owlhoots and murderous Apaches in the town of Appaloosa. Cole and Hitch used to be the law in town, but now Appaloosa has a corrupt, ambitious, and deadly police chief named Amos Callico backed up by 12 rifle-toting cops of dubious background, and though Callico sees Cole and Hitch as impediments to his plans for extortion and high political office, his threats don't worry the boys much. Meanwhile, Cole kills the son of a prominent rancher in a fair fight, renegade Apaches plan an attack on the town, and a mysterious dandy arrives in town with a sinister agenda. Fortunately, Cole and Hitch are smart and resourceful, and there's trickery, gunplay, and throat-cutting until only a few folks are left standing. Lean, fast, and full of snappy dialogue, it's everything a series fan would expect. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, the late Parker's other duo of terse-talking man-buddies, make their way back to the town they cleaned up in their first western, Appaloosa (2005), and find a particularly odorous piece of trash now stinking up the place the new chief of police, Amos Callico. The chief has his sights set on the governor's seat and from there the Senate and even the White House, so the last thing in the world he wants is someone firm standing in his way. Virgil and Everett know one thing, though, and it's standing firm. They set themselves up protecting local businesses that aren't so keen on bending to the official extortion racket and staring down Callico and his swarm of deputies every dozen or so pages. In addition to a typical Parker cast of cleanly defined good guys, bad guys, and meek, no-account guys, two new heavies enter the fray: a gunman who may be as good as Virgil and probably wants to kill him and a fiery Chiricahua outlaw whose hatred of white men sparks the first of the two bloody battle scenes. The substance of Virgil and Everett's idle philosophizing over right versus law doesn't stake out any new territory, but the flavor of their talk is as delectable as ever. Perhaps more intriguing is watching them try to figure out women (they don't) while loving them anyway. It would be blasphemy to suggest that, given time, Virgil and Everett might have eclipsed Spenser and Hawk, but it's just a shame we'll never find out for sure.--Chipman, Ian Copyright 2010 Booklist