Dr. Potter's Medicine Show

By Eric Scott Fischl

The year is 1878. Dr Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now snake-oil salesman, travels the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, fortune-tellers, and musical whores. Under their mysterious and murderous leader they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, a vital elixir touted to cure all ills both physical and spiritual. For a few unfortunate customers, however, the Sagwa offers something much, much worse.

For drunken dentist Josiah McDaniel, the Sagwa has taken everything from him; in the hired company of two accidental outlaws, the bickering brothers Solomon Parker and Agamemnon Rideout, he looks to revenge himself on the Elixir's creator: Dr. Morrison Hedwith, businessman, body-thief, and secret alchemist, a man who is running out of time.

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085766638X
• ISBN13: 9780857666383
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Angry Robot
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Carnivale Meets Deadwood

You can't help but root for the "good guys", even though they're flawed - sometimes tragically so. And the "bad guys" are just deliciously loathe-able. The scenes are so detailed, I want to see this as a prestige TV mini-series; Carnivale meets Deadwood.