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Trickshot: A Western Novel
Unveiling the Wild West Deception!
Dive into the dusty streets of Arizona Territory in 1858 with TRICKSHOT, the thrilling first installment in the gripping new JACK TRICKE series by veteran author Jamie Mason.
Meet Jack Tricke, a suave and cunning professional gambler whose luck takes a perilous turn in a town teeming with high-stakes poker games. Dressed to the nines, Tricke outwits his opponents, leaving them in the dust before the long arm of the law can catch up.
However, fate deals Tricke a hand he can't bluff his way out of when he becomes entangled in a shooting, landing him behind bars. Facing the gallows, he's presented with a unique trade the hangman's noose for an undercover assignment. The catch? Five years of service as a Pinkerton agent, tasked with surveilling the newly acquired Arizona Territory.
But this isn't your ordinary assignment. Tricke partners with a fellow Pinkerton in a traveling spectacle, a mix of sharpshooting and sleight-of-hand magic. As the Wild West unfolds, so do the secrets, and Tricke must navigate the treacherous landscape of trust, deceit, and redemption.
Praise For Jamie
"Part Maverick, part The Wild Wild West, part Spaghetti Western, and all fun, Trickshot is the start of a hugely entertaining, action-packed new Western series from one of the best writers in the business, Jamie Mason. If you’re a Western fan, you’ll have a great time reading this novel. I certainly did." – James Reasoner, bestselling author of Texas Bushwhack
Dive into the dusty streets of Arizona Territory in 1858 with TRICKSHOT, the thrilling first installment in the gripping new JACK TRICKE series by veteran author Jamie Mason.
Meet Jack Tricke, a suave and cunning professional gambler whose luck takes a perilous turn in a town teeming with high-stakes poker games. Dressed to the nines, Tricke outwits his opponents, leaving them in the dust before the long arm of the law can catch up.
However, fate deals Tricke a hand he can't bluff his way out of when he becomes entangled in a shooting, landing him behind bars. Facing the gallows, he's presented with a unique trade the hangman's noose for an undercover assignment. The catch? Five years of service as a Pinkerton agent, tasked with surveilling the newly acquired Arizona Territory.
But this isn't your ordinary assignment. Tricke partners with a fellow Pinkerton in a traveling spectacle, a mix of sharpshooting and sleight-of-hand magic. As the Wild West unfolds, so do the secrets, and Tricke must navigate the treacherous landscape of trust, deceit, and redemption.
Praise For Jamie
"Part Maverick, part The Wild Wild West, part Spaghetti Western, and all fun, Trickshot is the start of a hugely entertaining, action-packed new Western series from one of the best writers in the business, Jamie Mason. If you’re a Western fan, you’ll have a great time reading this novel. I certainly did." – James Reasoner, bestselling author of Texas Bushwhack
147 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 2, 2024
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Jamie Mason
48 books5 followersJamie Mason is a Canadian sci-fi/fantasy short-story author and novelist whose works are characterized by absurdist themes and an exaggeratedly fatalistic world view. His stories have been featured in On Spec, Abyss & Apex and the Canadian Science Fiction Review. His young adult sci-fi novel ECHO was published in June 2011 by Drollerie Press.
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February 10, 2024
A gambler/gunslinger is blackmailed into taking an assignment in the part of the country newly acquired in the Gadsen Purchase. It seem with the Civil War looming, and Mexico possibly reneging, and the Apaches warring, there is an awful lot of trouble down there. Good thing he has a travelling carnival to back him up.
Not the strangest western I've read.
Not the strangest western I've read.
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