The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories

Elmore Leonard
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The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories is a raw, hard-bitten collection that gathers together the best of Leonard's western fiction, to life. In "The Tonto Woman, " a young wife, her face tattooed by Indian kidnappers, becomes society's outcast - until an outlaw vows to set her free.... In "Only Good Ones, " we meet a fine man turned killer in one impossible moment.... "Saint with a Six-gun" pits a doomed prisoner against his young guard - in a drama of deception and compassion that leads to a shocking act of courage.... In "The Colonel's Lady, " a brutal ambush puts a woman into the hands of a vicious renegade - while a tracker attempts a rescue that cannot come in time ... and in "Blood Money, " five bank robbers are being picked off one by one, but one man believes he can make it out alive.
Genres: WesternsFictionShort Stories
345 Pages

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