The Sisters brothers
By: Patrick deWitt
Publisher: Anansi; Ecco Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780887842894; 9781770890329
Subjects: Gold mines and mining; Assassins; Brothers; Gunfights; Fiction
Description: "Herman Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for"--Jacket.
Notes: Governor General's Literary Award, 2011.