Resolution
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Remove from Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Resolution
Narrated by:
Titus Welliver
Buy Now for $16.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Titus Welliver
-
By:
-
Robert B. Parker
About this listen
I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon with the shotgun in my lap for two peaceful nights. On my third night it was different. I could almost smell trouble beginning to cook.
After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It’s the kind of town that doesn’t have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes a job as a lookout at Amos Wolfson’s Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the back rooms–as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the O’Malley copper mine.
Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount, so that even the self-assured Hitch is relieved by the arrival in town of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O’Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution’s few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O’Malley’s men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don’t exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.©2008 Robert B. Parker; (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
Critic Reviews
"The most memorable Western heroes since Larry McMurtry's...Lonesome Dove."
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
"A sparse, bullet-riddled rumination on law and order."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"A pure pleasure to read."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL
"A reminder of just how much hardboiled fiction owes the Western."
-KIRKUS REVIEWS
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
"A sparse, bullet-riddled rumination on law and order."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"A pure pleasure to read."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL
"A reminder of just how much hardboiled fiction owes the Western."
-KIRKUS REVIEWS
Dramatic elements tend to be underplayed in keeping with the personalities of the primary characters, who remain interesting and likeable. I liked the dialogue a lot but disappointingly cursing is largely restricted to the limited and repetitive modern range of popular swear words. The ‘said’s also get repetitive as mentioned in another review, but it’s not too hard to ignore.
You could argue that the plot is in some ways remixed from Red Harvest, but at least it is thoroughly remixed here, not just an imitation. If you want to spend some time with stoic gunfighters in the old West this is a great way to do it.
Good low-key Western
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.