My Rating: 4/5
Review: Yet another great western featuring Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. These guys are handy to have around when your town is getting out of hand. Amos Callico is power hungry, and wants the growing town of Appaloosa to be his starting point for the road to eventual presidency. Problem is, he has a nasty way of going about it. Enter Cole and Everett. I love their conversations, their way with guns, and their fearless pursuit of doing what they think is right. This was bittersweet for me, since Parker died not too long ago (we'll miss you Robert B.), but it's a fine ending to a great little series.
Book Description: Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk.
The new chief is Amos Callico: a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man with his eye on the governorship-and perhaps the presidency-he wants Cole and Hitch on his side. But they can't be bought, which upsets him mightily.
When Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch. But the guns for hire are thorns in the side of the power-hungry chief. When they are forced to fire on the trigger-happy son of a politically connected landowner, Callico sees his dream begin to crumble. There will be a showdown-but who'll be left standing?
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