Flint's Honor (G K Hall Large Print Western Series) - Hardcover

Richard S. Wheeler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783895038 ISBN 13: 9780783895031

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2001

Synopsis

The saga that began in Flint's Girl and Flint's Truth continues in a new novel about Sam Flint, a dedicated frontier journalist whose only weapon is the truth. Silver City, in the newly coined state of Colorado, already had a newpaper, run by a corrupt and manipulative editor. Flint feels strongly that an honest journalist has to take on the lies of the Silver City Democrat, but how can he launch his own paper when the whole town is in his rival's pocket?

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About the Author

Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began a late-in-life career as a novelist at age fifty, and by his seventy-fifth year had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1985. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won numerous awards, six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.

From Publishers Weekly

After the first two insipid volumes in the Sam Flint western trilogy (Flint's Gift and Flint's Truth), Spur Award-winning Wheeler finally strikes the right balance of suspense, humor, drama and credibility in this final installment. Flint is an itinerant newspaperman, an idealist who bums around the rough mining towns of the Old West setting up crusading weekly newspapers until he gets run out of town, which happens with clockwork regularity. In 1878 he shows up in Silver City, Colo., with his printing press, some paper and ink, and a na?ve plan to oppose the established and corrupt newspaper of Digby Westminster, a ruthless and greedy editor who preys on the poor and helpless. Silver City is a boomtown, however, and the only rental space available to Flint is in the unsavory back room of a bordello; his landlady is a predictably voluptuous and kindhearted trollop inappositely named Chastity. From the doxies and tinhorns, Flint quickly learns how Westminster runs a powerful triangle to control the town. In his journalistic efforts to combat this corruption, Flint's new paper, the Silver City Sentinel, earns few friends, no money and plenty of rough handling by Westminster's scathing editorials and his street thugs. Flint's enemies are not limited to the newspaper war. Rich and arrogant mine tycoon Achilles Balthazar, his penny-pinching wife, Consuela, and brutal son, Hamlin, also conspire to be rid of Flint and his bothersome publication. Aided by Chastity and a wacky and brilliant typesetter named Napoleon, Flint fights back with some nifty journalistic tactics that turn the town upside-down and drive his enemies crazy. This conclusion to the trilogy has pizzazz. Shrewdly plotted and refreshingly entertaining, it is by far the best of the three. (July)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783895038
• ISBN 13: 9780783895031
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 462