The man from misery
(2020)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/NOONAN,D

0 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/FICTION/NOONAN,D Due: 5/22/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020
©2019
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781432851910, 9781432851910, 1432851918
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Emmet Honeycut, a sniper during the Civil War, shoots a girl about to burn to death in a hotel fire. Although acquitted of murder, he becomes a pariah in town, but is reprieved by a telegram from Major Kingston, his former commander. Kingston's niece, Faith, has been abducted and he offers Emmet money to join his rescue party, which includes six other skilled men, and a beautiful woman whom Emmet comes to love. Enrique Salazar and Yago Garza are merciless cousins who control Santa Sabino and who plan to auction off young girls, including Faith, to wealthy landowners as sex slaves. When Kingston is betrayed and captured, Emmet leads the attack, kills the cousins, and frees the girls. The locals embrace him as their hero"--