Winter Kill: A John Henry Cole Story (John Henry Cole Series, Book 3) - Softcover

Bill Brooks

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9781504685344: Winter Kill: A John Henry Cole Story (John Henry Cole Series, Book 3)

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ISBN 10: 1504685342 ISBN 13: 9781504685344

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, 2016

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The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming, is devastating, killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole lives three miles out of town on his small ranch, where he waits out the storm that is quickly killing his cattle and horses. Everything he owns is dying before his eyes, and there isn't anything he can do about it. His dreams of a settled life are as dead as everything else. He knows it's time to move on, and move on he does -- but not in the direction he expected. Teddy Green, a Texas ranger, arrives in Cheyenne and seeks Cole's help in locating Ella Mims, a woman who once lived in Cheyenne and with whom Cole had once been intimate. Green wants to question Mims concerning her involvement in a Denver City murder . . . but he's not the only one searching for her.

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About the Author:

Bill Brooks is the author of more than twenty novels, including the critically acclaimed The Stone Garden, Bonnie & Clyde, and Pretty Boy. He works as a writing instructor and has taught workshops at the Chautauqua Institute, Writers of the Flathead, Pikes Peak Writer's Conference, North Carolina Literary Mountain Fest, and many others. He currently lives in Northeast Indiana.

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*Starred Review* For John Henry Cole, the Cheyenne winter—so cold, so bone deep “that even whiskey couldn’t fight it”—has left his dream of a rancher’s settled life “as dead as everything else,” including all his cows. Cole was ready to move on anyway when Texas Ranger Teddy Green rides into town, hoping to team with Cole in tracking down Ella Mims, Green’s estranged wife and the woman Cole let get away in Frontier Justice (2012). Ella, it appears, is wanted for murder in Denver and is being tracked by a gang of vigilantes and, worse, by a psycho killer called Gypsy Davy, who likes to cut off the ears of his victims and wear them around his neck. Cole and Teddy hit the road, along with one-armed Harve Ledbettor, a friend from Cole’s drover days, tracking Ella and her pursuers from Wyoming to Texas. What transpires is as much picaresque road novel as it is classic western, with the trio encountering all manner of adventures along the trail before finally facing the inevitable shoot-out. Cameos from Bill Cody, Doc Holliday, and Roy Bean enliven the action, but it’s the interplay between Cole and his two riding buddies that makes this fine novel sing. Western fans are largely forced to survive on reprints originally pyblished decades ago, which makes the work of contemporay writers like Brooks, who haven’t abandoned the grand western tradition, all the more satisfying. --Bill Ott

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