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Custer's Brother's Horseby Edwin Shrake
Synopses & ReviewsReview:"It's 1865, the Civil War is just over, but some folks in Texas still settle Yank-Reb scores with bullets and nooses. Shrake's 10th novel, a fast-paced western, begins with Confederate captain Jerod Robin waiting to be hanged for murder in Austin. Also in the hoosegow waiting for the hangman is blustery English novelist Edmund Varney, who is accused of stealing the horse of Lt. Tom Custer, the famous general's younger brother. Their jailer and tormentor is Santana Leatherwood, leader of a cold-blooded family of misfits who want Robin dead because of a family feud — and Varney dead just for the fun of it. A wacky judge named Dingus sets both men free, but they and Flora Blowprie (a young black fortune teller also spared by Judge Dingus) end up fugitives again after Flora shoots a would-be rapist. En route to Robin's family plantation, they pick up Isabella Bushkin, the abandoned wife of a disgraced Yankee politician, and now all four must shoot their way through soldiers, outlaws and Leatherwoods. A mysterious letter in Robin's jacket, Flora's ominous predictions and the truth behind the Robin-Leatherwood feud add suspense to this action-packed yarn. The ending is delightfully unpredictable and provides a satisfying conclusion to this well-crafted western tale." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:Set in Texas at the end of the Civil War, Bud Shrake's novel brings together an odd collection of characters, thrown together by circumstance: a young Condederate office, an English writer and adventurer, a young French mulatto girl from New Orleans, an aristocratic Spanish lady, and Tom Custer, brother of the Custer of Little Big Horn fame. Custer's Brother's Horse, Athena, provides a unifying thread throughout the narrative. Shrake writes of a Texas filled with uncertainty and torn by violent conflict ? between Confederates and anti-secessionists, pro and anti-slavery groups, the people of Texas and the occupying military forces of the victorious North. This is a great Texas book from a great Texas writer. It is filled with adventure, romance, humor and mystery ? all in an authentic historical context. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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