Cole and Hitch · Book 3

Brimstone

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
307
ISBN-13
9781597229951
Type
novel
Cover of Brimstone

About this book

Brimstone is the 3rd book in the Cole and Hitch series, written by Robert B. Parker, published in 2009 at 307 pages. It follows Resolution and precedes Blue-Eyed Devil in the reading order.

Key facts about Brimstone

Robert B. Parker wrote Brimstone, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 307 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781597229951 to find the main one.

Brimstone is book 3 of 10 in the Cole and Hitch series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with Appaloosa (2005).

Additionally, Robert B. Parker writes Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and western shelves. Meanwhile, Silent Night is the latest published Robert B. Parker book on file, from 2013.

About Robert B. Parker

Robert B. Parker was an American crime novelist credited with reviving and modernizing the hardboiled detective genre for the late twentieth century. A former English professor with a doctoral dissertation on Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, he channeled that scholarship into the Spenser series, following a wisecracking, code-bound Boston private investigator across nearly forty novels beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1973. See every Robert B. Parker book in order.

Its place in Cole and Hitch

Brimstone is book 3 in the Cole and Hitch series. It follows Resolution. It is followed by Blue-Eyed Devil. 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

Last updated