Gunman's Reckoning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546764304)

The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone-it is an overtone of conversation, one might say-and it is distinctly nasal. The brakie could talk above the racket, and so, of course, could Lefty Joe. They sat about in the center of the train, on the forward end of one of the cars. No matter how the train lurched and staggered over that fearful road bed, these two swayed in their places as easily and as safely as birds on swinging perches.

Author: Max Brand
ISBN-10: 1546764305
ISBN-13: 9781546764304
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2017
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d