A richly imagined book of the Old West, as free and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one from the world’s most talented performers.

It was in the past, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well while I recall anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole capture. Time slowed up for him. Generally steady, rather than fast .

When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker understands no boundaries. Through the iconic Spenser detective series as well as the novels offering Sunny about Appaloosa Randall and Jesse Stone, towards the groundbreaking historical novel Two times Play, Parker’s imagination has taken visitors from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, followers are used on another trip, to the untamed territories from the West through the 1800s.

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they look for a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has therefore small regard for the law that he has taken materials, horses, and females for his own and remaining the town marshal and one of is own deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are accustomed to clearing up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they discover an unusually wily adversary-one who boosts the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with feelings.

That is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best.