Arkansas Tom
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ARKANSAS TOM: A Gritty Western Novel of Frontier Justice In the dying days of the Wild West, some men kill for money. He killed for a living. Meet Arkansas Tom, a man as harsh and unforgiving as the Wyoming frontier he calls home. A former Army scout and legendary tracker, he now sells his deadly skills to the highest bidder. For the right price, this quiet, calculating hired gun will solve any problem a cattle baron has with rustlers-permanently. His signature is as cold as his heart: two stones left on the chest of each man he kills. It's a marker of a debt paid, a brand of brutal, frontier ...
ARKANSAS TOM: A Gritty Western Novel of Frontier Justice In the dying days of the Wild West, some men kill for money. He killed for a living. Meet Arkansas Tom, a man as harsh and unforgiving as the Wyoming frontier he calls home. A former Army scout and legendary tracker, he now sells his deadly skills to the highest bidder. For the right price, this quiet, calculating hired gun will solve any problem a cattle baron has with rustlers-permanently. His signature is as cold as his heart: two stones left on the chest of each man he kills. It's a marker of a debt paid, a brand of brutal, frontier justice in a land where the law is just a suggestion. Hired by powerful cattlemen to stop the bleeding from their herds, Arkansas Tom finds himself in the middle of a brewing range war. On one side are the wealthy ranchers, determined to protect their empire. On the other, desperate homesteaders pushed to the brink of starvation. As the body count rises, Tom's chillingly efficient work attracts the attention of a cunning Pinkerton detective who sees a pattern in the violence and begins to hunt the hunter. But this is more than a simple story of black hats and white hats. When Tom takes a young, admiring ranch boy under his wing, the lines begin to blur. A fatal mistake born of fog and circumstance shatters his cold composure, sending him into a spiral of guilt and whiskey. Haunted by the ghost of his last kill, the legendary tracker finds himself lost, a relic in a changing West where his brand of violence is no longer celebrated, but condemned. Written in the spare, gritty, and dialogue-heavy style of pulp westerns, ARKANSAS TOM is a riveting psychological western that explores the dark soul of a frontier legend. If you love classic westerns like Lonesome Dove, the historical action of True Grit, and character-driven tales of moral ambiguity, you won't be able to put down this fast-paced, unforgettable novel.
