Description |
304 pages |
Summary |
Sam Bonhambad husband, deadbeat dad, and possible criminal on the run from the lawwanders out of modern-day East Texas into an ersatz Wild West boomtown created for a movie that never happened. #xA0;And when Sam strikes a blow against the gangsters who#x19;ve been terrorizing the town, the locals look to him to save them. He#x19;s no hero, but he#x19;s stumbled upon someone who is: John Wayne. But the John Wayne of this story is not the stalwart lawman of Hollywood filmshe#x19;s a seventy-two-year-old man who had himself cryogenically frozen.#xA0; He#x19;s weak, bald, frail&and unrecognizable to everyone but Sam. In The Duke#x19;s #x1C;defrosted#x1D; state, he#x19;s not entirely himself.#xA0; In fact, he believes he#x19;s actually Ethan Edwards, the character he played in The Searchers, one of Wayne#x19;s most beloved films. Ethan or Duke or Marion Morrison, at his side Sam learns how to be a man, and a heroand a pretty good shot! As he takes on the Old West gang of thugs, he finds tha |
Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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ISBN |
9781439171561 paperback |
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1439171564 paperback |
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