Once he had belonged to the stark and brutal days, days of manhunts and sudden violence. Now Owen Toller had a farm and a family. Until the Brunner brothers came down from the hills-to murder and plunder, to writer bloodier, more savage history than even the James and the Dalton gangs.
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Clifton Adams (1919-1971) was an American novelist best known for his crime fiction and westerns. Born in Oklahoma, Adams wrote with a tough, direct style shaped by the emotional and physical landscapes of the American Southwest. His fiction often centres on men under pressure, moral weakness, violence, temptation, and the narrow margin between survival and destruction.Adams wrote under his own name and under pseudonyms, producing both noir crime novels and westerns for the paperback market. His crime fiction, including Death's Sweet Song, belongs to the hard-boiled and noir tradition of mid-twentieth-century American popular literature, where flawed characters are driven by fear, hunger, desire, and bad judgment into situations they cannot control.He also achieved major recognition as a western writer, winning two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. Today Adams remains of interest to readers of vintage paperback noir, hard-boiled crime fiction, westerns, and mid-century American pulp literature. His best work combines speed, fatalism, psychological pressure, and a bleak understanding of human frailty.
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Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. A hard-edged Western novel of violence, justice, and survival in a lawless frontier where authority is measured at gunpoint.Clifton Adams's The Law of the Trigger presents a stark vision of the American West, shaped less by formal justice than by personal resolve and the ever-present threat of violence. In a landscape where institutions are fragile or absent, the novel follows men forced to define their own codes of conduct, confronting moral ambiguity and the consequences of decisive action. Adams's narrative avoids romanticism, instead offering a direct and unsentimental portrayal of frontier life.Written in the tradition of mid-twentieth-century Western fiction, the work reflects Adams's reputation for realism and narrative economy. His prose is controlled and purposeful, emphasising character and tension over embellishment. The result is a compact and compelling Western that captures the harsh conditions and ethical uncertainties of its setting, appealing to readers of classic genre fiction and those interested in the evolution of the modern Western novel. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 220. Artikel-Nr. IB-3831683
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