When jury returns with the ‘not guilty’ verdict for an old town crook and smuggler Ollie Jacks it brings dissensions among few prominent people in the town. Everyone thought that Ollie deserves death for what he is believed to have done, but one of the town leaders, Clay Morgan, decides to spare his life and guarantees him safety if he stays in town. But Ollie can’t trust Morgan’s promise and goes on a run which propels a posse containing both those who want Ollie dead and those who want to rescue him.
عن المؤلف
Ernest Haycox is among the most successful writers of American western fiction. He is credited for raising western fiction up from the pulp fiction into the mainstream. His works influenced other writers of western fiction to the point of no return. Fans of his work included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and the latter once wrote, ‘I read The Saturday Evening Post whenever it has a serial by Ernest Haycox.’
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