In the Wyoming Territories, after the Civil War, three misfits are down on their luck.
Ephraim Odom, an escaped convict, Hiram Thornbury, a card shark, and Lucius Culpepper, a politician with an opium addiction decide to rob a wealthy rancher. What they don't realize is that their actions will set forth a chain on events they could have never expected.
Albert Binax, a legendary scourge who according to the legends has killed more men than smallpox, is after them. He lives by a strict code and will stop at nothing until justice is meted out.
With a deadly killer on their trail, will the three find salvation on the coast, or meet their fate at the end of Binax’s pistol?
Andrew Davie has worked in theater, finance, and education. He taught English in Macau on a Fulbright Grant and has survived a ruptured brain aneurysm and subarachnoid hemorrhage. in January 2022, he'll begin a Clinical Mental Health MA program.
If you liked Andrew Davies “McGill and Grouper” series (and if you haven’t read them and like hard boiled noir buy “Pavement” and come back and read this later) or Westerns with plenty of violence mixed with philosophical musings-This is the book for you.