"If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino. . . . You never know what he'll come up with next, but somehow it's always a Waldrop story."
Horse of a Different Color
β Scribed by John Lansdale
- Book ID
- 110801468
- Publisher
- Crossroad Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Edition
- First Digital
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781301895939
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Rustin Kemp was injured trying to catch a brutal killer. He lost his job, his family, his children, and the only thing left to him was the case. Then another murder - very similar to the case that ruined his life - drew him in for one last run at redemption.
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