Cole and Hitch · Book 1
Appaloosa
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN-13
- 9780399152771
- Type
- novel
About this book
Appaloosa (2005) opens Robert B. Parker's only western series at 276 pages, introducing lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch as they take the marshal job in the title town -- the pattern of a lawless settlement and a dangerous local power broker that the whole series, and the later Robert Knott-continued novels, would follow.
Its place in Cole and Hitch
Appaloosa is book 1 in the Cole and Hitch series. It is followed by Resolution. See the full Cole and Hitch reading order.
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are a pair of hired lawmen drifting across the post-Civil War American West, taking on marshal and deputy jobs in whichever town needs order imposed fastest. Robert B. Parker's only western series, it applies the same spare, dialogue-driven style he brought to Spenser to the genre that shaped his prose in the first place — Cole is the quicker gun and the more rigid moral code, narrator Everett Hitch the steadier, more reflective of the two, and their partnership is tested repeatedly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399152771