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Resolution

Title:

Resolution

Author:

Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010, author.

Welliver, Titus, narrator.

Series:

Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Relocating to an Old West saloon town, Everett Hitch takes a job protecting the women in a house of ill repute but finds his peace at the side of an old friend challenged by a hired gun and a greedy mine owner.

General Note:

Compact discs.

Edition:

Unabridged ed.

Physical Description:

4 sound discs (4 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Western fiction.

Audiobooks.

Local Note:

Midwest

Subject Term:

Cole, Virgil (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Hitch, Everett (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Welliver, Titus,

Publisher:

Random House Audio,

Publication Date:

2008

ISBN:

9780739366134

Publication Information:

New York : Random House Audio, p2008.

Call Number:

CDB PARKER

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Summary

Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, the two honorable guns-for-hire from Appaloosa, return. This time, Cole and Hitch find themselves forced to choose between the shifting laws of the West and the timelessness of friendship. Unabridged. 5 CDs.

Summary

Everett Hitch takes up residence in Resolution, a new town in the Old West. He becomes the protector of the ladies working at the saloon and develops a reputation for being able to stand up to the men from the O'Malley copper mine. But when the owner of the mine threatens the town, Hitch is happy to have the help of friend Virgil Cole.

Author Notes

Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September 17, 1932. He received a B.A. from Colby College in 1954, served in the U.S. Army in Korea, and then returned to receive a M. A. in English literature from Boston University in 1957. He received a Ph.D. in English literature from Boston University in 1971.

Before becoming a full-time writer in 1979, he taught at Lowell State College, Bridgewater State College and Northwestern University.

In 1971, Parker published The Godwuff Manuscript, as homage to Raymond Chandler. The character he created, Spencer, became his own detective and was featured in more than 30 novels. His Spencer character has been featured in six TV movies and the television series Spencer: For Hire that starred Robert Urich and ran from 1985 to 1988.

He is also the author of the Jesse Stone series, which has been made into a series of television movies for CBS, and the Sunny Randall series. His novel Appaloosa (2005) was made into a 2008 movie directed by and starring Ed Harris. He has received numerous awards for his work including an Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1977 for The Promised Land, Grand Master Edgar Award for his collective oeuvre in 2002, and the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He died of a heart attack on January 18, 2010 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Parker applies his customary vigor to this sequel to Appaloosa (2005), in a sparse, bullet-riddled rumination on law and order, friendship and honor. Narrator and hired gun Everitt Hitch takes a job as lookout in Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and, in short order, guns down local upstart Koy Wickman and stands up for the town's beleaguered prostitutes. Without fully intending it, he creates a haven of orderliness amid the chaos of sheriff-less Resolution. But larger forces are at work as Eamon O'Malley, competing with Wolfson for control of Resolution, hires freelance thugs Cato and Rose to replace Wickman. Lest Everitt end up outnumbered, his old friend Virgil Cole turns up just as Wolfson and O'Malley amass armies for a decisive battle. Wolfson's army turns out to be the more unsavory and dishonorable, winning the day against O'Malley--but Virgil, Everitt, Cato and Rose are prepared to settle things the honorable way. Though the plot meanders its way to a too-fast climax, Parker's dialogue is snappy and his not-a-word-wasted scenes suit this Spartan western. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Library Journal Review

Fresh from the bloodshed in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch rides into Resolution and is soon taking on the nasty mine owners. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.