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Widowmaker Jones / Brett Cogburn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wheeler large print western seriesPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Large print editionDescription: 505 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781410494139
  • 1410494136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: With a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger -- Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina -- is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the horses he's stolen, the women he's bedded, and the men he's killed. As for Newt, he has a unique talent for choosing the wrong partners, from an angry, addled judge named Roy Bean to a brother and sister pair of circus gypsies, Fonzo Grey and Buckshot Annie. The more Newt pursues the cunning and deadly Cortina, the angrier he gets, until somewhere on the border the whole crazy journey explodes into an all-out battle of bullets and blood.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Dr. James Carlson Library Large Print Fiction WESTERN Cogburn, Brett Available water damage on top edge of pages near back of book 9/27/2023 33111008577286
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Spur Award-winning AuthorWith a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake: trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger -- Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina -- is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's.

With a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger -- Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina -- is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico, where the man is legendary for the horses he's stolen, the women he's bedded, and the men he's killed. As for Newt, he has a unique talent for choosing the wrong partners, from an angry, addled judge named Roy Bean to a brother and sister pair of circus gypsies, Fonzo Grey and Buckshot Annie. The more Newt pursues the cunning and deadly Cortina, the angrier he gets, until somewhere on the border the whole crazy journey explodes into an all-out battle of bullets and blood.

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