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When was the last time you read a western? Well, the time has come. Following the Booker-nominated success of Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers, the pseudonymous Stark Holborn brings an equally picaresque voice to the Old West in a series of tales, initially published online, of Sister Thomas, a nun stranded in the wilderness whilst California-bound and her fortunate rescue by love struck rogue Abe Muir. Their adventures, regular cliffhangers and encounters after Sister Thomas Josephine is accused of bloody murder, read like a penny dreadful saga of constant ups and downs, hangings, escapes, gunfights and abductions through which they survive against all odds and are forced to confront a chilling nemesis in the person of deceptively handsome Lt. Theodore Carthy. If only all movies were so good!
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The year is 1864. Sister Thomas Josephine, an innocent Visitantine nun from St Louis, Missouri, is making her way west to the promise of a new life in Sacramento, California. When an attack on her wagon train leaves her stranded in Wyoming, Thomas Josephine finds her faith tested and her heart torn between Lt. Theodore F. Carthy, a man too beautiful to be true, and the mysterious grifter Abraham C. Muir. Falsely accused of murder she goes on the run, all the while being hunted by a man who has become dangerously obsessed with her. Her journey will take her from the most forbidding mountain peaks to the hottest, most hostile desert on earth, from Nevada to Mexico to Texas, and her faith will be tested in ways she could never imagine. Nunslinger is the true tale of Sister Thomas Josephine, a woman whose desire to do good in the world leads her on an incredible adventure that pits her faith, her feelings and her very life against inhospitable elements, the armies of the North and South, and the most dangerous creature of all: man.
Nunslinger: The Complete Series features in the following genres: Espionage and spy thriller, Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Recommendations
Nunslinger: The Complete Series is available in Paperback
Nunslinger: The Complete Series was written by Stark Holborn and published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Nunslinger: The Complete Series has 496 pages
£9.89