Galveston Gunman

by Bill Crider

Overview

Lee Strate is robbed of his fortune and left for dead before he is discovered and saved by Jack, a freed black man. Lee and Jack hunt down the thieves and uncover a plot to incite black and white Galveston dockworkers to riot against each other, just as President Ulysses S. Grant is due in town.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590772218
Publisher:	M. Evans & Company
Publication date:	03/21/2014
Series:	An Evans Novel of the West
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bill Crider is the winner of two Anthony Awards and an Edgar Award Finalist. An English teacher for many years—at both collegiate and high school level—he’s published more than seventy-five Western, crime and horror novels. He lives with his wife in Alvin, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

This sluggish, post-Civil War era western opens with three desperados bushwacking loner Lee Strate and lifting his hard-earned stake of $5000. Wounded and left for dead on a trail somewhere near Houston, Lee is saved by Jack Farmer, a free black man, who tends Lee's wounds and agrees to help recover the money. In Houston, Lee finds out that the three bad guys work for Colonel Benson, an ambitious and evil hombre, fiercely racist and still fighting the war. When Benson takes off for Galveston, Lee and Jack follow, and soon discover that Benson and his henchmen are stirring up racial trouble among the dock workers. In Washington, President Hayes has heard about the tensions in Galveston, and asks former President Grant to visit the city as a goodwill gesture. Benson plans to have his boys assassinate Grant. Meanwhile, Lee falls in love with an high-spirited woman whom he meets at a greased-pig catching contest. Creaking along to an entirely predictable climax, the plot is a stunning soporific. Unidimensional characterizations and hackneyed dialogue round out this flat effort by the author of Ryan Rides Back . (Feb.)

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