Appaloosa



Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are a team, a pair of fast guns for hire by towns that are slipping into the dark breach of lawlessness. While it is Hitch who narrates APPALOOSA, the focus is on Cole, a man who is known throughout the territory for his fearlessness and his fast and uncanny aim. Cole and Hitch are brought to Appaloosa as a last resort due to the actions of Randall Bragg, a renegade rancher whose cattle hands use the town for their personal plunder. They quickly establish their presence in Appaloosa and attract the attention, and enmity, of Bragg.

Cole also attracts the attention of Allison French, a new arrival in Appaloosa who quickly sets her sights upon him, and he upon her. This mutual attraction does not escape Bragg's notice; when Cole and Hitch make their move against him, Bragg utilizes Cole's one weakness, forcing Cole to make a decision that he will almost certainly regret. It is Hitch, however, who is the true wild card in the book.