His brains and ambition bring him to the attention of one Marc Leval, a wealthy Chicago developer with big plans for the small town. Self-educated saloon owner and photographer Bill Ogden looks on his adopted town with an eye to making a profit or getting out. In 1872, Cottonwood, Kansas, is a one-horse speck on the map a community of run-down farms, dusty roads, and two-bit crooks. Now this award-winning author broadens his canvas, writing his most accomplished novel yet - one that is rich in suspense, drama, historical sweep, and Phillips's unique blend of unforgettable characters. Phillips followed with the acclaimed sequel, The Walkaway, showing how a seeming windfall can wreak wicked havoc on the lives of its recipients. In his New York Times notable debut, The Ice Harvest, Scott Phillips gave readers an instant noir classic that spanned twenty-four eventful hours in the life of a mob lawyer hoping to skip town (namely Wichita) with a small fortune. Brilliantly written, maliciously fun, and full of many surprises, Cottonwood is historical fiction at its finest.9.5'圆.5', 292 pages. He also brings to life actual crimes that befell Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s, carried out by a strange clan who popularly became known as The Bloody Benders.

In his own inimitable brand of narrative wizardry, Scott Phillips traces the metamorphosis of a frontier town that becomes a lightning rod for sin, corruption, and murder. Book has some bumped corners, some stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Dust jacket has label on the front, some wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. H2 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket.

Cottonwood by scott phillips