The Shopkeeper
FICTION/Westerns
Trade Paperback
6 X 9 In
240 Pages
Publication Date: December 2007
Suggested Retail Price: $18.95
Author: James D. Best
ISBN: 978-1-58736-922-3
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The Book
In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his shop in New York City and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. His infatuation with another man’s wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron.
Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the New York shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. He has interfered with Washburn’s ambitions and this is something the mining tycoon cannot allow to go unpunished.
Pinkertons, hired assassins, and aggrieved bystanders escalate the feud until it pulls in all the moneyed interests and power brokers in the State of Nevada. Is a New York City shopkeeper tough enough to survive the Wild West?
The Author
James D. Best is the author of The Digital Organization, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1997 and The Shut Mouth Society, published
by Wheatmark in 2008. He lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife Diane.