05 Ironhorse
Authors: Robert Knott
Tags: #Robert B. Parker, #Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch
Ironhorse
Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch [5]
Knott, Robert
Putnam Adult (2013)
Tags: Robert B. Parker, Virgil Cole Everett Hitch
Robert B. Parkerttt Virgil Cole Everett Hitchttt
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in a brilliant new addition
to the New York Times-bestselling series.
For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-
rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and
Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves
traveling by train through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty
starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but
when the Governor of Texas, his wife and daughters climb aboard with their
bodyguards and $500,000 in tow, their journey suddenly becomes a lot more
complicated.
The problem is Bloody Bob Brandice. He and Virgil have had it out before, an
encounter that left Brandice face-down in the street with two .44 slugs lodged in
him. Now, twelve years later on a night train struggling uphill in a
thunderstorm, Brandice is back — and he's not alone. Cole and Hitch find
themselves in the midst of a heist with a horde of very bad men, two beautiful
young hostages, and a man with a vendetta he's determined to carry out.
NOVELS BY ROBERT B. PARKER
THE SPENSER NOVELS
Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby
(by Ace Atkins)
Sixkill
Painted Ladies
The Professional
Rough Weather
Now & Then
Hundred-Dollar Baby
School Days
Cold Service
Bad Business
Back Story
Widow’s Walk
Potshot
Hugger Mugger
Hush Money
Sudden Mischief
Small Vices
Chance
Thin Air
Walking Shadow
Paper Doll
Double Deuce
Pastime
Stardust
Playmates
Crimson Joy
Pale Kings and Princes
Taming a Sea-Horse
A Catskill Eagle
Valediction
The Widening Gyre
Ceremony
A Savage Place
Early Autumn
Looking for Rachel Wallace
The Judas Goat
Promised Land
Mortal Stakes
God Save the Child
The Godwulf Manuscript
THE JESSE STONE NOVELS
Robert B. Parker’s Fool Me Twice
(by Michael Brandman)
Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues
(by Michael Brandman)
Split Image
Night and Day
Stranger in Paradise
High Profile
Sea Change
Stone Cold
Death in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise
Night Passage
THE SUNNY RANDALL NOVELS
Spare Change
Blue Screen
Melancholy Baby
Shrink Rap
Perish Twice
Family Honor
THE VIRGIL COLE NOVELS
Blue-Eyed Devil
Brimstone
Resolution
Appaloosa
ALSO BY ROBERT B. PARKER
Double Play
Gunman’s Rhapsody
All Our Yesterdays
A Year at the Races
(with Joan H. Parker)
Perchance to Dream
Poodle Springs
(with Raymond Chandler)
Love and Glory
Wilderness
Three Weeks in Spring
(with Joan H. Parker)
Training with Weights
(with John R. Marsh)
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