Robert B. Parker's Bull River (A Cole and Hitch Novel)

By Robert Knott

Book Overview

"Clever detective work and considerable shooting. It reads lightning fast...Suspenseful." - Booklist Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in the saddle with guns blazing in this gritty, intense addition to the?New York Timesbestselling series. After hunting down the notorious desperado Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to San Crist?bal to?stand trial. No sooner do they remand him into custody than a major bank?robbery occurs and the lawmen find themselves tasked with another job:?investigating the robbery of the Comstock Bank, recovering the loot, and bringing the?criminals to justice. But when their primary suspect is found severely beaten?outside a high-class brothel and turns out to be using a false?identity to escape a torrid past, it is Alejandro who becomes the key to their?investigation. Cole and Hitch are soon on the trail of the money, two?calculating brothers, and the daughter of St. Louis's most prominent?millionaire in a Cain and Abel story that brings revenge to a whole new level.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399165266
• ISBN13: 9780399165269
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.4" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Not bad work from a different author

Mr. Knott has done respectable work in continuing Robert Parker's Cole and Hitch series with this second work (the first of the continuation by Mr. Knott being "Iron Horse"). This story captured a very good likeness of the two main characters that Mr. Parker created in terms of their dialogue and (from Everett Cole's mind) thoughts, observations and descriptions. The plot itself is substantial, credible and well-supported by a varied cast of characters who are developed enough in themselves (however brief a part they play) to give flavor to the story. It is a worthy contribution to the series.