<![CDATA[Brimstone]]>

false <![CDATA[Brimstone]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255659235m/6006715.jpg 6006715 6 New York Times–bestselling author Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. W hen we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It’s now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Making their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally discover Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can’t face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town’s deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace. As sharp and clear as the air over the high desert, Brimstone proves once again that Robert B. Parker is “a force of nature” (The Boston Globe). 6181807 30 6 2009 Brimstone total:168|5:7|4:12|3:6|2:2|1:0| 168 611 235 68 3 1 false true Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:20:40 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:36:38 -0700 2009 Interestingly, the POV is from Hitch who modestly tells it, as befits someone living under the Code of the Old West. As with all of Parker's charac...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 03:45:22 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 07:06:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 05:35:28 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 05:40:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 18:09:30 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 13:07:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 06:50:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 07:01:16 -0700 2009
I always feel kinda mean-spirited, dissing something I couldn't do...write novels. And I HAVE read most of Robert B. Parker's novels. But... T...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 10:19:52 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 10:25:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 17:18:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 16:24:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:33:30 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:37:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 18:06:27 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 18:11:39 -0700 2009
For me this was not nearly as good as Ap...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:46:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 03:41:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 08:39:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 13:34:21 -0700 2009
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I read!! The villian, and villian he was, was the town preacher, a
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