From Library Journal
The author's third novel featuring Leo Guild, bounty hunter, is set in a midwestern city in 1892. At the age of 55, Guild, a man of conscience haunted by his accidental killing of a child, seeks relief in work. He becomes involved with Stoddard, a crooked boxing promoter who specializes in matches between white and black boxers--matches in which the blacks are to be brutally beaten, sometimes to death. This pleases the public (white) and makes money for Stoddard. How Guild handles this situation, his conscience, and his concern for others, makes a gripping story. Gorman's style is just right--terse, sharp, not a superfluous word. Recommended.
- Sister Avila, Acad. of Holy Angels, MinneapolisCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Alan Zimmerman reads this masculine sporting tale in an expository manner. In the late 1800s, 55-year old Leo Guild, a hired gun and bounty hunter who dislikes boxing, needs money, so he accepts a job locating a missing prizefighter and guarding the promoter's cash receipts from the big fight. Guild meets Clarice Watson, a mulatto woman whose brother died in the ring and who's seeking revenge. Listeners will learn a great deal about prizefighting and race in the Old West. The combination of Gorman's gritty prose and Zimmerman's stoic but dramatic narration proves to be unique. This is recommended especially for men and boys. S.C.A. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--
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