Fencing the Sky: A Novel

A cattleman flees the scene of an accidental murder in "the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time" (Kirkus Reviews).

Stepping his horse through the lush, beaver-worked draw looking for stray cows, Mike Arans never imagined that, moments later, he'd find himself swinging a nylon loop around Merriweather Snipes and pulling until his neck snapped. Once Snipes was dead, Mike fished a notepad and a stub of pencil from his pocket, wrote "I did this,...