Book description
The dust has yet to settle in the new frontier town of Resolution.
It's barely even a town: a general store, a handful of saloons and a
run-down brothel for the workers at a nearby copper mine. No sheriff
has been appointed, and gunslingers have taken control. Amid the
chaos, itinerant lawman Everett Hitch has created a small haven of
order at the Blackfoot Saloon. Charged with protecting the girls who
work the back room, Hitch has seen off passing cowboys and violent
punters - though it's his scheming boss, Amos Woolfson, who stirs up
the most trouble. When a greedy mine owner threatens the local
ranchers, Woolfson ends up at the centre of a makeshift war. Hitch
knows only too well how to protect himself, but with the bloodshed
mounting, he's relieved when his friend Virgil Cole rides into town.
In a place where justice and order don't yet exist, Cole and Hitch
must lay down the law - without violating their codes of honour, duty
and friendship.
Robert B. Parker is a crime-writing legend. His novels featuring
wise-cracking private-eye Spenser shaped crime fiction and dominate
the US bestseller lists on publication. At the 2002 Edgar Awards,
Parker was named Grand Master of Crime Fiction, an honour shared with
Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen.
