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A promise to kill

Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But wh...

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Main Author: Storey, Erik (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2017.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Series: Clyde Barr novel
Clyde Barr novel.
Subjects:
Indian reservations > Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Action and adventure fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Summary: Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But when he runs across an elderly sick mana Ute Indian from a nearby reservationClydes dream of solitude is quickly dashed. On the reservation, Clyde finds the old mans daughter, Lawana, and grandson, Taylor, as well as a group of menacing bikers called Reapers running wild in the economically depressed, half-abandoned village. Gripped by the desire to do good in a hard world, Clyde offers to stay on Lawanas ranch to help out until her father is released from the hospital. He controls himself around the bikers, even when he sees them harass a few Native American womenbut when the Reapers attack a local boy Clyde has to do something. As tensions rise between the locals and the Reapers, Clydes efforts to protect the reservation become a fight for his, Lawanas, and Taylors lives. And then the stakes ratchet up even more. In the remote Utah desert, surrounded by enemies, with no law enforcement presence, and with communication effectively cut off, Clyde must find a way to save his new friends, defeat the gang, and, hopefully, escape with his own skin intact. A Promise to Kill is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, pushing its no-hold-barred hero to new levels of improvisation and bare-knuckled blunt force.
Physical Description: 269 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1501124188
9781501124181
Author Notes: Erik Storey is a former ranch hand, wilderness guide, dogsled musher, and hunter. He spent his childhood summers growing up on his great-grandfather's homestead or in a remote cabin in Colorado's Flat Tops wilderness. He has earned a number of sharpshooter and marksman qualifications. He is the author of three Clyde Barr novels, Nothing Short of Dying, A Promise to Kill , and the forthcoming Leave No One Alive . He and his family live in Grand Junction, Colorado.

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