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Violence
A lot
Significant; Western thriller with realistic violence and life-or-death confrontations
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate; the Western frontier world
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the psychology of a man trying to walk away from a violent past
What this book is about
Erik Storey's debut Western thriller introduces Clint Bass, a former survival instructor who has spent years in foreign prisons and returns to the American West to find his sister in danger. The novel blends the Western tradition's lone hero with the modern thriller's pacing and action, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy's frontier sensibility applied to a contemporary setting.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Significant Western thriller violence
Strong language
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