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The Bloody Spur: A Western of Pursuit, Violence, and Relentless Consequence
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627551151
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: May 17 2013
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Western novel in which pursuit, violence, and moral ambiguity converge in a landscape shaped by greed and survival.
In The Bloody Spur, Charles Einstein brings a hard-edged sensibility to the Western form, following a relentless pursuit driven by stolen gold and the men willing to kill for it. As alliances shift and pressure mounts, the narrative moves through a series of confrontations in which motive is rarely simple and consequence is unavoidable. The terrain itself-harsh, exposed, and unforgiving-mirrors the tensions between the characters.
Einstein's approach blends the pacing of a thriller with the atmosphere of the Western, emphasising movement, danger, and the gradual tightening of circumstance. The novel stands at the intersection of crime and frontier fiction, offering a stripped-down narrative in which action and character are closely aligned.
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