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Gunpowder Express

by Brett Cogburn
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TIME TO MEET THE WIDOWMAKER
 
Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail—a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way.
 
With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy and desperate for money, Newt joins three other guards—and a passenger, Jenny Silks, a stubborn firebrand with her own stake in seeing the delivery through. But waiting on the Gunpowder Express is Irish Jack O'Harrigan and his band of outlaws. There's not a soul alive he wouldn't think twice about putting six feet under. But he's never traded lead with the man known as Widowmaker . . .
Praise for Spur Award winner Brett Cogburn
 
"Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburn's readable prose and lively characters."
—Publishers Weekly on Rooster
 
"Cogburn amazes and astounds."
—Booklist

  • Creators

  • Series

    A Widowmaker Jones Western

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 31, 2019

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780786041695

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      • ISBN: 9780786041695
      • File size: 813 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      January 1, 2020
      Arizona Territory, 1884. Newt "Widowmaker" Jones hates his nickname, but he'll never shake it until he stops prizefighting. When he loses a rigged match, Lily Silks, who invested in the local gold mine, patches him up and offers him a job guarding a shipment of gold to the railroad over the gunpowder express, a road notorious for robberies. The stagecoach carrying Lily and Skitch, the mine manager, and forty thousand dollars in gold might as well have a bullseye painted on it. But Newt needs money to claim his horse, so he agrees to go along. Meanwhile, a road agent readies an ambush with aid from a crooked sheriff; Lily and Skitch make different plans for the gold; and two mysterious gunmen start trailing the coach. By the first bend in the road, the fate of the gold is in doubt and, from there, competition for it is nonstop. Coburn's latest has a twisty, surprising plot, smooth prose, and a protagonist who's not a stereotype. Good guy or bad? Readers will enjoy figuring Widowmaker out.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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