The Ghost With Blue Eyes - Softcover

Randisi, Robert J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0843945710 ISBN 13: 9780843945713

Publisher: Leisure Books, 1999

Synopsis

Lancaster hangs up his six-shooter and grabs a bottle after accidentally killing a young girl in a gunfight, but when another girl needs his help, he will fight to regain his soul and his honor in order to save her. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert J. Randisi has written more than 270 Western novels under 11 different names, including six different Western series. He was exposed to the fans of Western legends John Jakes, Elmer Kelton, and Loren D. Estleman through his contributions to The Funeral of Tanner Moody and Legend anthologies. He co-founded and edited Mystery Scene magazine and the American Crime Writers League. He founded The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981, where he created the Shamus Award. Crow Bait was Randisi's 24th novel with Dorchester and his 14th Western.

From Publishers Weekly:

Randisi's (Targett) short but intense western delivers exciting plot in spare, exacting prose. After the gunfighter known only as Lancaster turns down a $10,000 offer to kill a man (Lancaster provides protection but he's not a killer-for-hire), he is forced into a gunfight with his would-be target, with tragic results: Lancaster accidentally kills a six-year-old girl. Haunted by the memory of the girl's vivid blue eyes, Lancaster moves to another town, where he gives up the gun and becomes the town drunk. But fate steps in to change his life once again when he meets nine-year-old Alicia and her mother, who are on the run from Alicia's abusive father, rich and powerful Aaron Delaware. Alicia's mother is killed by one of Delaware's hired guns and Delaware arrives to claim his daughter, but Lancaster comes to the rescue and takes Alicia to the best person he can think of to care for her--the mother of the girl he killed. Readers will experience the pleasures found in old "B" Westerns: the simple (but not simplistic) moral opposition between good and evil and the inspiration of personal redemption. (Aug.)

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About this edition

• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0843945710
• ISBN 13: 9780843945713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215