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Brimstone

Title:

Brimstone

Author:

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

Welliver, Titus, narrator.

Series:

Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.

General Note:

Compact discs.

Edition:

Unabridged ed.; Library ed.

Physical Description:

4 sound discs (ca. 95 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Western fiction.

Audiobooks.

Subject Term:

Cole, Virgil (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Hitch, Everett (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Peace officers -- Fiction.

Religious leaders -- Fiction.

Temperance -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Welliver, Titus,

Publisher:

Books on Tape,

Publication Date:

2009

ISBN:

9781415963180

Publication Information:

Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2009.

Call Number:

CDB PARKER

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607002208521	Adult Fiction Books on CDs	PARKER	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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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 (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Parker's gunslinging saddle pals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return for their third adventure, in which the two lawmen-for-hire exchange snappy dialogue and hot lead with assorted owlhoots, deadbeats and unwashed baddies in south Texas. Here, Virgil and Everett rescue Allie French, Virgil's former sweetie who ran off to become a prostitute, and head to Brimstone, where the two gunmen sign on as deputy sheriffs. Brimstone, however, doesn't exactly provide a quiet respite for this trio. Virgil and Allie have a hard time getting over his hurt and her shame, a mysterious Indian is killing local folks and leaving taunting messages, and brutal saloon owner Pike and corrupt preacher Brother Percival are headed for a showdown. Virgil and Everett settle on a tricky solution that involves a talented tracker, a bribe, a double-cross, a noxious cloud of gun smoke and a pile of perforated bodies. The result is classic Parker-exciting, suspenseful, fast-moving and entertaining. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved