{"product_id":"the-return-of-kid-cooper-a-novel","title":"The Return of Kid Cooper: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA 2019 SPUR AWARDS WINNER!  \"A first-rate novel.\"True West magazine  \"Brad Smith has got the goodshes funny  poignant  evocative  and he tells a blistering tale. A writer to watch  a comet on the horizon.\"Dennis Lehane  award-winning author of Mystic River  \"Smith has written tight  fast-paced novels his entire careerand reading one is like riding a thoroughbred.\"--The Chronicle Herald  In the style of Cormac McCarthy  a gritty tale of justice and revenge in the Wild West.  The year is 1910.  Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy. He sees the change brought by the turn of the centuryhorses giving way to motorcars  his girlfriend marrying his best friend  and his nemesis running for governorand reckons none of it to be good. The west is being tamed  and with progress  some things are lost. But people? They tend to stay the same. Even after spending nearly thirty years in a Montana prison for a wrongful murder conviction  Nates moral compass is true and unwavering: he does all the wrong things for all the right reasons.  So when he returns to his Northern Montana ranching town to find the Blackfoot Indiansthe people he went to prison trying to defendare still being cheated out of their territory by ranchers  Nate cant rest on his laurels. With grit  determination  a quick trigger finger  and the help of the woman he used to love  Nate sets out to settle the score and force some justice in into the changing world. Before long  though  hell discover that justice doesnt come cheap.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950209593397,"sku":"ByrdShop_1948924536","price":60.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781948924535.jpg?v=1770101281","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-return-of-kid-cooper-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}