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The Sheriff

  • ISBN-13: 9781493058488
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: TWODOT
  • By Robert Dwyer, By Austin Wright
  • Price: AUD $40.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 15/06/2021
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Westerns [FJW]
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The Sheriff, opens with an aging Sheriff Donovan coming to terms with his recent diagnosis of terminal cancer. Desperate to maintain his tenuous grasp on Three Chop, the town he willed into existence, Donovan enters into a bargain with a faction of rural Christian Prohibitionists, agreeing to shutter the local saloon and brothel. But his plan to cement his legacy in the eyes of God soon meets resistance from the town's business elite, whose livelihoods depend on liquor sales. With a band of notorious outlaws descending on Three Chop, the dispute ignites into a furious battle that forces residents to take sides, to choose between the town's past and future.
Robert Dwyer is a data scientist who lives with his wife and dog in Alexandria, Virginia. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2014 in computational biology and has published articles in several peer-reviewed journals, including Genetics, The Journal of Bacteriology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Austin Wright is a communications director for a health analytics firm who lives with his wife and son in Annandale, Virginia. He previously spent six years covering Congress and the Pentagon for Politico, and his reporting was recognized in 2016 with a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists (D.C. Chapter).
"I think that THE SHERIFF by Robert Dwyer and Austin Wright has a chance to be judged one of those rare modern Western fiction classics. The authors somehow manage to be both traditional and surprising on every page. ... The town of Three Chop, grizzled Sheriff John Donovan, assorted outlaws radiating real menace, women just as desperate and cunning as any of the menfolk--there's damned fine storytelling here." --Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Western Writers Association Spur Award for Best Traditional Western Novel
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