There Came a Stranger
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Publisher Description
Chad Walker doesn't give a hoot about anyone in Pinto, Texas. Not his wife, not his ranch hands, not even his horse. So when a stranger wanders in to town, everyone at Baldy's Saloon is shocked when Walker extends a hand, and a job to the mysterious war-torn man.
Adam Dawson is the stranger travelling west through Texas. He's left the army and his best friend Autie because he's done with killing, and the two go hand in hand. He fought for years under Autie (everyone else knows him as Custer) and his Wolverines, and he wears the red bandana to prove it.
But blood starts to boil when the stranger comes to town, and blood starts to spill. Dawson finds himself in the middle of a land war and a love war, and nobody but nobody can make Dawson kill again.
In this riveting tale of man versus man, we learn through the fictional eyes of Adam Dawson, about the type of man General Custer was and the type of man Custer wanted to be.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For a man who vowed he would never kill again, ex-Yankee soldier Adam Dawson sure leaves a lot of bullet-riddled outlaws fouling up the desert air of 1870s' Texas. This is an uneven hayburner from Fenady, novelist (The Man with Bogart's Face) and movie producer (Chisum, with John Wayne). Oddly, in a western yarn where the good guys and bad guys are clearly defined, the hero, Dawson, cannot seem to make up his mind which to be. A former army buddy of General Custer, Dawson drifts into Pinto, Tex., looking for work. He signs on as a cowboy with ranch owner Chad Walker, an embittered cripple who hates Mexicans, Indians, Confederates just about everyone, including his beautiful, adulterous wife, Lorena. A bitter love triangle develops when Dawson and Lorena act on their mutual attraction; meanwhile, Dawson must deal with Joe Nueva, the man whom he replaced at the ranch, and the malodorous, murderous gang of Comancheros that have been wreaking havoc. Fenady adds other equally transparent plot lines to kill time between the gunfights, pistol-whippings and bushwhacking an evil neighboring rancher schemes to take over Walker's spread; a hardened saloon girl nurses a tormented widow whose husband was murdered by the Comancheros; and the tough town sheriff teaches his teenage deputy how to handle a rifle and a broom. Murder plots abound, but there is little mystery or suspense. Fenady tips his hand too early and the reader will see each bullet coming long before the characters do. The gun smoke and hot lead action are fast and bloody, but nothing makes this tale more than another oater, in which the cowboy should just kiss his horse and keep on riding.
