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GLORIOUS
Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872.
This is the first book in a planned trilogy featuring Cash McLendon and his cohorts in the town of Glorious. Putnam plans to publish the next two in summer 2015 and 2016.
This is the first book in a planned trilogy featuring Cash McLendon and his cohorts in the town of Glorious. Putnam plans to publish the next two in summer 2015 and 2016.
We all got mistakes in our past we’d rather forget.
Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father, barely scraping by on the streets of St. Louis in 1872. He’s always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from St. Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: A wife, a career, property, standing.
But when tragedy strikes, all of his plans and his entire future dissolve in an instant. His instinct for survival kicks in and he flees St. Louis before Douglas and his enforcer, an ominous skull-cracker with steel-toed boots, can track him down.
With nothing to lose, McLendon decides to track down an old flame: a woman he was nearly engaged to, but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles. He heard through the grapevine that she and her father moved their dry goods store out West, to a speck-on-the-map mining town named Glorious, in the Arizona Territory. There he tries to win her back and instead discovers a life and community. But he can’t outrun his past forever…
Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including the recently-published Manson, The Last Gunfight, and Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2010. The former books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and award-winning investigative journalist, he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father, barely scraping by on the streets of St. Louis in 1872. He’s always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from St. Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: A wife, a career, property, standing.
But when tragedy strikes, all of his plans and his entire future dissolve in an instant. His instinct for survival kicks in and he flees St. Louis before Douglas and his enforcer, an ominous skull-cracker with steel-toed boots, can track him down.
With nothing to lose, McLendon decides to track down an old flame: a woman he was nearly engaged to, but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles. He heard through the grapevine that she and her father moved their dry goods store out West, to a speck-on-the-map mining town named Glorious, in the Arizona Territory. There he tries to win her back and instead discovers a life and community. But he can’t outrun his past forever…
Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including the recently-published Manson, The Last Gunfight, and Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2010. The former books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and award-winning investigative journalist, he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Published 2014-05-06 by Putnam |