Revenge Requires Two Graves

by George Emery Townsend

The cold hearted murder of Emery Cooper is the catalyst for his son’s cross-country expedition. With his father dead, his mother missing, and a price on his own head, Ray Cooper jumps on the first wagon train out of Wisconsin in search of a simpler place. But Ray and his traveling companions are quickly stripped of their boyish innocence as they discover the harsh realities of prairie life. With bloodthirsty Indians, hired assassins and jilted suitors all out to kill Ray, the farm-boy will have to grow up fast - or face deadly consequences.

361 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Colton Morrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one big, suspenseful ride from the first to the last page. There are several gritty scenes throughout this book, which would renders this book not intended for younger audiences. Fair warning, there is a historical inaccuracy in the backstory of the Marshall of Los Angeles. The author says Winchester's, but there were no Winchesters in 1846, 20 years previously to the book. This book is about one man, Ray Cooper and his two friends. Emery, Ray's father was in a land dispute with the logging company that runs the town that they lived in. He bought this piece of land in Wisconsin, with his own money. The logging company wanted it, to put a mill on it, to cut more lumber up north. Then came the trick, which resulted in Emory's death. The trick was, they were going to go cut his timber. When Ray and his father, rode up to the cabin that was on the land they bought, Samantha Foster, along with three of Emery's supposed work friends came with. Samantha kept Ray busy, kissing and having intimacy and sex with him, on the floor of the stable, while the three men killed Emery, the father of Ray. Ray even thought he heard something, Samantha, that evil woman said it's probably your father cutting up lumber. It was those three men, who killed him, by putting an axe into Emery's back. After Ray finds him, and realizes that his mother has gone to California, to the only sister she knows, he begins an epic journey with two of his friends, Larry and John to California.