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New in paperback Hunter's Trap by C. W. Smith |
"The complex plot. . . moves inexorably to a stunning irony on the final page."—Publishers Weekly
". . . skillfully wrought tale."—Booklist
"It's an eye for an eye—obsessive hatred, relentless pursuit and coldblooded revenge for irrevocable loss—in this hypnotic sequel to Smith's highly praised 1989 western Buffalo Nickel."—Publishers Weekly
In Hunter's Trap, Smith's fifth novel, he creates a brooding tale of psychological suspense set on the film noir landscape of James M. Cain and Jim Thompson. On the night of the vernal equniox 1930, Wilbur Smythe (a.k.a. Will Hunter) embarks on a plan to avenge the deaths of his wife and his employer, a wealthy Kiowa, both murdered by a banker greedy for the Kiowa's oil money.
A twentieth-century "western" blended with elements of Greek tragedy, Hunter's Trap explores the textures of place and time, collision of cultures, and the thin margin between good and evil in members of the human family. Hunter's Trap is a literary page turner that repays its readers from the first page to the last.
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C. W. SMITH is the author of the novels Thin Men of Haddam, Country Music, The Vestal Virgin Room, and Buffalo Nickel as well as a collection of short stories—Letters from the Horse Latitudes—and the memoir, Uncle Dad. He is professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Hunter's Trap
0-87565-162-3 cloth $22.50
0-87565-177-1 paper $14.95
6x9. 216 pp.
Fiction.
Publication Date: August 1997.
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