Description

Author/Contributor(s):	L’Amour, Louis
Publisher:	Bantam
Date:	10/28/2008
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventurebring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories,L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime,sports, and the murky world where the two often meet. From suspenseful whodunitsto rueful tales of fortunes gained and lost, this remarkable collection will enthralland entertain L’Amour fans old and new.

Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblastedhills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America’s greatest cities, some ofLouis L’Amour’s most compelling fiction was set in his own time—whether in the nakedelectric glare of boxing rings where men go head-to-head with their dreams and demonsin an underworld rife with corruption, or along freight docks where laborers toilto earn just enough to get by, or in the penthouses of the rich and arrogant whocalculate the odds of how to get even more. Here are tales of innocents caught inthe schemes of criminals, detectives hunting down truths that hide more lies, gamblersand beauties, wiseguys and cops. Here is a world populated by the kinds of peoplewho risk their lives to right a wrong, make a buck, or save a friend.

A war veteranmakes a journey to visit the man who saved his life in Korea. Instead he uncoversa killing and finds his own heroic cause…. Confronted with an easy chance to steal,an honest man gives in to temptation—and finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmailand violence…. An elderly Hawaiian seafarer is found dead with a hand-carved figurebeside his body. Unraveling his murder will mean solving the mystery of a shipwreck—andof the forces that drive some to take fatal chances and others to kill.

Brimmingwith thought-provoking characters and situations—from a man who awakens from unconsciousnessto find a fortune in a burning house to a man who meets a killer who is supposedto be dead in a seedy diner—these thrilling, atmospheric stories course with authenticityand bear the mark of a timeless master.