Gunsmoke Trail: a High Noon novel - 3348

Amid the sprawling wilderness of Saratoga, the lines of power, control, and survival are starkly etched against a canvas of relentless desert and lawless towns. Governor Gideon McGrady, his grip on the state as tenuous as the desert's promise of water, pulls strings in the shadows, aligning with the notorious Los Hermanos gang led by the formidable Montana Azul. By fostering a climate of calculated chaos, McGrady aims to propagate fear—only to offer himself as Saratoga's savior in the looming mirage of reelection. Yet, piercing through the facade is Bonnie Beecher, the “Vigilante Virtuosa,” whose Bandero Blondes tear at the shackles of convention with lightning ferocity, inadvertently threading themselves into McGrady's duplicitous narrative and threatening to unravel his carefully spun deceit. Meanwhile, a tale of vengeance brews beneath the scathing sun as Colonel Davis McAtte chases down the phantoms of his past, drawn inexorably toward a showdown with Montana Azul—whose own loyalty is tested under McGrady's ruthless demands. As the intricate game unfolds, destinies intertwine at the desolate town of Purgatory, the inevitable nexus for long-awaited reckonings. High noon approaches at the edge of Wyrmwood Basin, and with it, a tempest of unraveling secrets: Montana, his tactical mind put to the ultimate test, schemes to transform prey into predators; Bonnie, her resolve as potent as the steel of her guns, teeters on the cusp of profound realizations; and Davis, hounded by the ghost of a lost love, totters between the chasms of revenge and redemption. Their paths, so violently cast within the crucible of Saratoga's turmoil, are hurtling toward a meeting that will leave the West forever changed. What explosive encounters await at Purgatory, where the echoes of history and the roaring silence of the wild promise to climax in a duel with fate itself?
ASIN: B0CYY3QS8F
VSKU: BVV.B0CYY3QS8F.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Cenac, Dwight
Binding: Paperback