Silver City

December 15, 2016
The Cash McLendon trilogy wraps up with this rousing story of revenge. Those not familiar with the previous two books, Glorious (2014) and Buffalo Trail (2015), need only know that, in 1872, Cash's father-in-law put a bounty on Cash's head (unfairly). Since then, through the first two books, Cash has been on the run, trying to stay a few steps ahead of the ruthless assassin Patrick Brautigan and to find the woman he loves, Gabrielle Tirrito. Now the worst has happened: Brautigan has caught up to Cash, and Cash has a terrible choice: whether or not to risk his own life to save Gabrielle's. Set against a Deadwood-style backdrop (Silver City, a bustling Western mining town in Arizona Territory) and featuring a real gunslinger (a preOK Corral Ike Clanton) as a supporting character, the book is sure to appeal to fans of the first two novels, but, since the author provides the necessary background, newcomers will have no trouble jumping right in. Plenty of action for genre western fans but enough meat for a broader cut of historical-fiction readers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)