First published 1976
King Fisher should be dead. The notorious Texas gunfighter and cattle rustler met his end in a hail of bullets, or so the official story goes. But Fisher has other plans. He stages his own death and slips away from his violent past, leaving behind the reputation that made him both feared and hunted across the frontier. Now he must navigate a new existence while staying one step ahead of those who might recognize the man who was supposed to be buried. Fisher discovers that escaping your past proves harder than any gunfight he ever faced. The skills that kept him alive as an outlaw become liabilities in his new life. Rathbone explores what happens when a man tries to kill his own legend and start over, examining whether redemption is possible for someone who lived by the gun.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, crime, 19th-century
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: redemption, reinvention
Setting: Texas
Period: 19th-century
206 pages · Hardcover · Michael Joseph