In the Old West, Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker confront a killer potion, and a fugitive bent on payback In the Wyoming Territory town of Le Four, Lobo Blacke used to be a legendary lawman, until the day an ambush left him confined to a wheelchair. Now he runs a newspaper with onetime New Yorker Booker Quinn, who also helped pen the great man's memoirs. But now Le Four is shaken by rumors that Paul Mullera bank and train robber whom Blacke helped lock upmight be headed back to town to settle old accounts. And the same week, fourteen people suddenly drop dead after sipping Ozono, a concoction sold by a traveling medicine show. The brew's casualties include the town's sheriff, and without him, Quinn and Blacke must prepare to face the fiendish Muller, and discover the connection between the elixir and the fugitive.
"A colorful, generously plotted slice of period Americana whose veteran author's recent death makes you wonder whether Lobo, like the figures on Keats's Grecian Urn, will spend eternity pursuing the scoundrel who crippled him."
Kirkus Reviews
"Absorbing and playful... With ample wit and fluent command of the western idiom, DeAndrea gracefully folds one complication into another for this ride into the Old West of bad men, ranchers, schoolmarms and prostitutes."
