The Quick and the Dead: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0553899597
- ISBN-13
- 9780553899597
- Series
- The Quick and the Dead
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-08-03
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Author
- Louis L'Amour
Description
When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian’s true interest Duncan’s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him? As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat—the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within. . . .
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2013-02-19
- 248 pages
- Ebook
- Grub Street Publishers
Similar books
-
The Quick and the Dead
By Joy WilliamsA panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career.
-
The Quick and the Dead: Total Training for the Advanced Minimalist
By Pavel TsatsoulineYou are serving your country, raising a family, training for a sport¿ You have been around too long to be fooled by pop fitness "high intensity" fads. The Quick and the Dead is designed for an advanced minimalist like you.
-
The Quick and the Dead
By Jack CurtisEllen McKenzie returns to Redemption, where her father had been marshal before outlaws took over the town, to enter the quick draw contest and to kill the leader, and encounters Cort, a former gunman turned preacher who has been brought to ...
-
The Dead and the Living
By Sharon OldsThe Dead and the Living presents a beautifully realized cycle of poems beginning with those that honor the dead, then poems that burrow into childhood, limning the uncomfortable; and culminating in poems for the living, moving outward ...
-
The Brief History of the Dead
By Kevin BrockmeierIn an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.
-
The Beauty of Living Twice
By Sharon StoneIn The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health.
-
Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
By Rock ScullyThis memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.
-
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming
By Inara VerzemnieksA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A BookPage Best Book of the Year "This exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past." —Robin ...
-
The Quick And The Dead: Biomedical Theory In Ancient Egypt
By Andrew Andrew Hunt GordonOthers hold that, while rules of evidence were first made explicit then, some were being implicitly observed by individuals within the Greek world sometime before (Lloyd, 1966). However, students of early medical history outside of ...
-
The Quick and the Dead: Resistance, Banditry & Vigilance Revisited on the Central Coast
By Pete KelleyPreviously citizens of Mexico, these men were all Americans when their necks were stretched. The official story is that the vigilantes rid the county of murderous bandits, the so-called Powers-Linares Gang. My story is a little different.