Charles O. Locke

The Taste of Infamy (eBook, ePUB)

The Adventure of John Killane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A powerful novel of vengeance and regret set against the dramatic backdrop of the Texas border wars The powerful Mexican landowner De Gorios is notorious on both sides of the Rio Grande. In order to add to his already-vast wealth, he regularly sends raiders north of the border to burn, plunder, and kill. But when De Gorios's marauders swoop down on John Killane's property, set it ablaze, and murder Killane's brother, the taciturn Texan vows revenge. Aided by his fellow ranchers, Killane slips into Mexico and prepares an assault on De Gorios's hacienda. Violence leaves a bitter taste in his mouth, and the motives of his backers may not be as transparent as they first appeared, but Killane has made a promise that he would rather die than break. If he cannot summon the courage and the coldness to act, he might just get his wish. From the groundbreaking author of The Hell Bent Kid, one of the most acclaimed Westerns ever published, The Taste of Infamyis both a thrilling novel of adventure and a stunning morality tale.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504011754
• Artikelnr.: 44368836

Autorenporträt

Charles O. Locke (1896-1977) was an American author best known for his novels of the West. The scion of a newspaper family, he was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and graduated from Yale University. Locke began his career as a reporter at the Toledo Bladeandbefore long moved to New York City, where he wrote for a number of newspapers, including the New York Postand the New York World- Telegram. Like many, he fell in love not only with the city but with its huge public library and access to the worldof theater. He composed songs and libretti for stage shows, wrote plays forradio programs, and joined a local theater group, for which he wrote, directed, and performed, sometimes in his own plays. Locke published his first novel, A Shadow of Our Own, in 1951, following it with his breakout success, The Hell Bent Kid, in 1957 .The story of a young man in the 1880s who is unjustly pursued across the state of Texas by relentless enemies, this mesmerizing tale was heralded by the Western Writers of America as one of the top twenty-five Western novels of all time. 20th Century Fox adapted the book into a feature film, From Hell to Texas, in 1958 . The Southwest continued to fascinate Locke, and it provided the backdrop to two more, equally powerful novels, also set in the nineteenth century: Amelia Rankin(1959) and The Taste of Infamy: The Adventure of John Killane(1960).