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Name: Appaloosa
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Author: Robert B. Parker

In Robert B. Parker’s gritty western, gunfighter Virgil Cole and ex‑marshal Everett Hitch move to the struggling frontier town of Appaloosa to restore order after a violent spree by a renegade rancher. Their previous experience in cleaning up lawlessness is tested as the new outlaw not only violates the law but also attacks personal principles, forcing Cole and Hitch to let emotion drive their response to injustice.

First publish date: 2005

Genre: Western Fiction/Historical Western

Authors: Robert B. Parker

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