{"product_id":"widows-peak-c-lowry-9798349620706","title":"Widow's Peak","description":"Widow's Peak \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe signed on to protect a legend. He ended up protecting the truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroke, tired, and down to his last three pennies, Eldridge Sample takes a job that no self-respecting gunfighter would touch: bodyguard for a traveling wild west show run by a professional widow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenny Jackson is selling a story. She claims her late husband, Major Lucius Jackson, was the \"Hero of the Plains,\" a man who single-handedly held off a Comanche war party to save a settlement. But Sample remembers the Major differently. He remembers a coward who slept through the Battle of Shiloh while his men died in the mud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite his better judgment, Sample joins the troupe-a drunk juggler, a runaway rope artist, and the sharp-tongued widow-as they tour the dusty mining camps of West Texas. But when a real Comanche raiding party attacks the wagons, Sample discovers that the show is built on more than just lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovering a trail of brand-new Henry repeating rifles sold to the very warriors terrorizing the frontier, Sample realizes he's stumbled onto a conspiracy that leads straight to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Now, caught between a corrupt government agent desperate to bury the evidence and a widow determined to turn a massacre into a headline, Sample must decide whether to walk away or rewrite the script with a Colt .45.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The truth is messy,\" Sample said. \"That's why people pay for the lie.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWitty, cynical, and packed with action, Widow's Peak is a deconstruction of the Western myth that delivers all the thrills of the real thing. Perfect for fans of True Grit, the satire of The Sisters Brothers, and the hard-boiled style of Elmore Leonard.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. Lowry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798349620706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Ozarks Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33d","brand":"C. Lowry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460316705023,"sku":"9798349620706","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cdcee8e1-0093-4c41-8b8e-f02ecb1989c7.jpg?v=1777413953","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/widows-peak-c-lowry-9798349620706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}