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The Bet
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781972671146
Publisher: Coyote Pack Publishing
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At a Thanksgiving table sixty miles south of Albuquerque, a seventy year old widower who has not said an unnecessary word in two decades says six.
I want to make a bet.
Three men, three books, one year to write and one year to let them walk. Whoever sells the most takes the family Winchester, a rifle that has passed from Gray to Gray by death for four generations and is now on the table while its owner is still alive to watch.
His son says yes in two words. His grandson says yes in sixty. None of them has ever written a book.
All three will.
The Bet is told by all three Coyotes and by the woman in the kitchen who heard every word. It is about a father who cannot say stay, a son who cannot say I miss home, and a grandfather who cannot say what the bet was for.
The three books they wrote are real.
They are yellow.
You can read them.
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