{"product_id":"widows-peak-paperback","title":"Widow's Peak - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWidow's Peak \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe signed on to protect a legend. He ended up protecting the truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroke, tired, and down to his last three pennies, Eldridge Sample takes a job that no self-respecting gunfighter would touch: bodyguard for a traveling wild west show run by a professional widow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny Jackson is selling a story. She claims her late husband, Major Lucius Jackson, was the \"Hero of the Plains,\" a man who single-handedly held off a Comanche war party to save a settlement. But Sample remembers the Major differently. He remembers a coward who slept through the Battle of Shiloh while his men died in the mud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite his better judgment, Sample joins the troupe-a drunk juggler, a runaway rope artist, and the sharp-tongued widow-as they tour the dusty mining camps of West Texas. But when a real Comanche raiding party attacks the wagons, Sample discovers that the show is built on more than just lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovering a trail of brand-new Henry repeating rifles sold to the very warriors terrorizing the frontier, Sample realizes he's stumbled onto a conspiracy that leads straight to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Now, caught between a corrupt government agent desperate to bury the evidence and a widow determined to turn a massacre into a headline, Sample must decide whether to walk away or rewrite the script with a Colt .45.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The truth is messy,\" Sample said. \"That's why people pay for the lie.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWitty, cynical, and packed with action, Widow's Peak is a deconstruction of the Western myth that delivers all the thrills of the real thing. Perfect for fans of True Grit, the satire of The Sisters Brothers, and the hard-boiled style of Elmore Leonard.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101900312799,"sku":"9798349620706","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xGnbhJnCul9798349620706.webp?v=1781075853","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/widows-peak-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}