The Hanging of Father Miguel (An Evans Novel of the West) - Softcover

Armen, M. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590772253 ISBN 13: 9781590772256

Publisher: M. Evans & Company, 2014

Synopsis

War had killed ‘Glint’ McClain’s taste for gunfighting. Perhaps that is why a young hardcase could best the famous gunman and leave him for dead on the parched ground of the Arizona desert. Father Miguel finds McClain and nurses him back to health. To repay this kindness, McClain agrees to fight off the Lathrops, local mine owners who are enslaving the Indians in Miguel’s parish.

Yet despite his Good Samaritan ways, the townspeople want Father Miguel dead—he brings nothing but trouble, they say. And now, the Indians fear him too. Is Father Miguel a man of God or Father Diablo, a lying cheating scoundrel? McClain must take the measure of his savior, before he can take aim at the true enemy.

About this title

About the Author:

Veteran Hollywood screenwriter M. A. Armen wrote for The Rebel, The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Star Trek and The Mod Squad. She served on the board of governors of the Television Academy and on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America West. She lived her later years in Southern California until her death in 2003.

From Library Journal:

Father Miguel, on his way to his desert mission in Arizona after a six-month absence, rescues "Glint" McClain, a famous gunman and deserter from the Union Army, to help him tackle the problems facing him at his mission. His Indians have been enslaved by the rapacious Lathrop to work in the gold mine he has seized, and the people of Rileyville are fearful of anything that threatens their placidity. All fear Miguel, however, for supposedly he has been dead these last six months. How all this works out makes for a fast-paced, action-filled first novel written by an experienced screenwriter. Armen's style is marked by word pictures and brisk dialog. Priest or no, Miguel is a charming hero(?) villain(?).
- Sister Avila, Acad. of Holy Angels, Minneapolis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: M. Evans & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1590772253
• ISBN 13: 9781590772256
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138