Widowmaker Jones (A Widowmaker Jones Western)

About this book

From the great-grandson of famed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn comes an authentic new "True Grit" Western classic. 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 Newts horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. Its enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newts. Newt chases Cortina into Mexico where the man is legendary for the horses hes stolen the women hes bedded and the men hes 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. . .. Praise for Spur Award winner Brett Cogburn: "Fans of frontier arcana will revel in Cogburns readable prose and lively characters." --Publishers Weekly on Rooster "Cogburn amazes and astounds." --Booklist