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Paradise Sky

By: Joe R. Lansdale
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
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A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick.

Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie rechristens himself Nat Love, in tribute to his mentor, and heads west.

In Deadwood, South Dakota Territory, Nat becomes a Buffalo Soldier and is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok. After winning a famous shooting match, Nat's peerless marksmanship and charm earn him the nickname Deadwood Dick as well as a beautiful woman. But the hellhounds are still on his trail, and they brutally attack Nat Love's love. Pursuing the men who have driven his wife mad, Nat heads south for a final, deadly showdown against those who would strip him of his home, his love, his freedom, and his life.

©2015 Joe R. Lansdale (P)2015 Hachette Audio
Historical Suspense Westerns Fiction Witty Mystery
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" Paradise Sky is a rowdy, funny, suspenseful, and often quite moving yarn." ( Booklist starred)

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"Too often overlooked in American literature is that lineage descending from our early humorists such as Bierce, and from Twain: regional, darkly comic, bizarre. That's where Joe Lansdale lives." (James Sallis, author of Drive)
"Classic Lansdale, his own self peppered throughout by much piney backwoods philosophizing on everything from religion to whoring." ( Austin Chronicle)

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Not so Tall Tales of the Wild West

Follow the life and times of Deadeye Dick a young black man trying to navigate thru life after the Civil War. Indians, outlaws and bigots, oh my! Wonderfully read and most entertaining and perhaps a bit closer to historic accuracy than the usual Western.

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