Pale Horse Coming - Softcover

Hunter, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099436841 ISBN 13: 9780099436843

Publisher: Arrow, 2003

Synopsis

The Year is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer has come to chat with Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor, about a dangerous unknown - a prison for violent black convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, a place of many questions but no answers. Would Sam, a white man and a Southerner, be willing to investigate? When Sam vanishes in the mists and swamps, his old friend Earl Swagger packs his gun and heads to Thebes where he discovers sinister secrets that go far beyond the prison walls. The whole town guards itself from nosy strangers with a private army of brutal, gun-toting, Klan-type thugs and rednecks. After barely escaping, Earl vows to right things and reclaim Thebes from the throes of a sinister conspiracy. But first, he enlists just a little help from his friends. Featuring the same fast-paced action and page-turning thrills that made Hot Springs a heart-stopping bestseller, Pale Horse Coming is a triumphant successor.

About this title

Review:

"Thriller writing at its best" (Observer)

"Classically shaped, chiming with legend and geuinely thrilling" (Literary Review)

"Stories of passion, guilt and redemption that jump right off the page and smack the reader clean between the eyes" (Independent on Sunday)

"Up there with the likes of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly at the forefront of the hard-boiled Amercian crime fiction" (Glasgow Herald)

Book Description:

Earl Swagger is back in a searing follow-up to the bestselling Hot Springs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099436841
• ISBN 13: 9780099436843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576