num_pages: 270
description: Ordinary people do not understand Oscar Stone. Everything he does, he does impeccably. He is a profound student of his art, completely versed in its traditions over the centuries. He is a student of ropes and their properties, a master of the latest scientific knowledge about the human neck, a careful calculator of weights and drops, and an exacting observer of results.For more than a quarter of a century he has worked to create a reputation as a man peerless in his the master executioner.Yet he is utterly His devotion to his work costs him his marriage. Suddenly, one day, a piece of his past catches him unawares, and Oscar comes to a moment of devastating truth and for the first time knows himself.
language: English
title: The Master Executioner
titlecomplete: The Master Executioner
genres: Fiction, Westerns, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 146
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award
category: Western Novel
publisher: Forge Books (Tom Doherty Associates)