Divided loyalties
By: Ethan Flagg
Series: A black horse western; Black horse western
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780709086710
Description: Outlaw gang leader Curly Ben Clovis has heard about shipments of silver being stored at the town of Hashknife in southern Colorado. Shot and badly wounded in a failed holdup, Clovis sends his Lieutenant, Jim Kane, to suss out the best way of seizing the valuable haul once he has recovered. Kane is mistaken for the new lawman and quickly calculates that assuming the guise of Marshal Jonas Kelly will put him in a more favourable position to organise the proposed robbery. Little does the outlaw realise the quandary in which he will become embroiled and he is forced to make choices, the outcome of which will lead to double dealing and bloodshed.