An Eye for an Eye

by Kent Conwell

For twelve years, four months, and six days, Jed Walker doggedly clung to one kill the five owlhoots who had shot him and murdered his brother. Only after he was nursed back to health after a second ambush did he begin to realize that his hate-filled mission came at an expensive price, years wasted from his own life. Then, after all that time, the trail grew hot. Jed pursues two of the remaining three killers through Southeast Texas to Sabinetown where he learns the identity of the third man. The third man turns out to be the one who not only nursed him back to health, but became his friend in the meantime. In anguish, Jed Walker stands at the crossroads of his life. How can he kill the man who saved his life?

192 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Kent Conwell grew up in the Texas Panhandle in the town of Wheeler, population 848. The West was an integral part of his life. The solitude of the Panhandle, which offered little more than school and work, encouraged his reading and writing as well as his exploration of the vastness of the rolling prairies, the emptiness of which carried the presentiment itself of mystery and death.

A quest for adventure had been woven into his life by his grandfather, who had run away from his Tennessee home when he was 14. He bullwhacked his way to the Panhandle where he met his future wife who had traveled from Illinois to Texas.

After moving to Fort Worth where Kent was more at home at the stockyards than school, he earned a B.S. and began teaching. Later, he moved to Port Neches where he acquired a M.Ed. and Ph.D.

A successful educator, his love for writing about the West and its enigmas, a period in history unique to America, has never waned. After twenty-two westerns, he wrote his first mystery.
He has won awards for short stories, screenplays, mysteries, and westerns.

Reviews

[D. E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A KC. Texas Western Action Adventure (AEFAE)

KC. has penned a Texas western action adventure titled, "An Eye For An Eye" which begins with a wandering man looking for his brothers killer. He has been looking for 12 years. He meets a brother and sister and spends time with them when he hears about the man with the missing finger. He gets the show on the road and chases the man across Texas to Galveston. The man is slippery and he escapes, but our hunter partners up with a young man and they continue the chase. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Good Tale

After catching up and killing the fourth and fifth men who had stolen his castle and killed his brother twelve years ago in Missouri, Jed is confronted with a "rock and a hard spot" situation.

I recommend you read these two books.

[Patricia Braddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

This book will keep you turning pages. Very interesting and entertaining good book by this Author and have been pleased with them all that i have read by Kent Conwell