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From the author of Echoes of Glory, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best long novel, comes the tale of Jade, a rough man of the old West, molded by a tragic past, an Indian hunter who finds himself falling for a woman raised by Indians, symbol of all the he hates and all that he is.

Award winning author Robert Flynn once again takes his readers on a journey to a past they can imagine through his words, with people that are hard to forget, in a story that could be set in a modern day war...or placed like it is...deep in the Old West.

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September 1, 2010
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Dallas News: Tension crackles throughout this excellent, tautly crafted Western. A hater of Indians and tormented outlaw finds himself falling for a woman kidnapped as a child and raised by Indians. The outlaw also is being pressured to become a desperate town's lawman. San Antonio author Robert Flynn's previous novel, Echoes of Glory, won a 2010 Western Writers of America Spur Award. His newly published sequel to Jade: Outlaw is titled Jade: The Law.

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Robert Flynn, an accomplished author of novels and short stories, is a native of Chillicothe, Texas, "a town so small there is only one Baptist Church, so small you have to go to Quanah to have a coincidence." He is the author of ten novels and many short stories, the best of which were published in collections entitled Seasonal Rain, Living With the Hyenas and Slouching Toward Zion. Flynn's writing has won him awards and recognition from the Texas Institute of Letters, the NEA/Pen Syndicated Fiction Project, the Theater of Nations in Paris, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Writers of America. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0041OSYG8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ JoSara MeDia (September 1, 2010)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 428 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 190 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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Robert Flynn is a native of Chillicothe, Texas, despite its size the best known Chillicothe outside of Ohio, Missouri and Illinois. Chillicothe is so small there’s only one Baptist Church. Chillicothe is so small you have to go to Quanah to have a coincidence. Chillicothe is fairly bursting with truth and beauty and at an early age Flynn set out to find it. His life and work could be described as The Search for Morals, Ethics, Religion, or at least a good story in Texas and lesser known parts of the world.
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Reality on The Frontier

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2012

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Robert Flynn's Jade Outlaw pulls the reader immediately into an era where human life carries less value than "being right." Much like Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Jade Outlaw does not sugar coat a period that is often romanticized. Jade shoots his new wife to keep her from being captured by Indians and consoles himself with the thought that it had to be done. Crow Poison, Jades's love interest, was captured and raised by Indians and lived as the wife of a brave until white men killed him. She lacks any understanding of Jade's and the white man's casual approach to killing another human being. The resolution of this difference and the acceptance of Crow Poison by the community as anything other than a hated Indian is the central theme of the book.

Flynn relies less on descriptive settings and a honed sense of place to create reality for the reader than on dialogue and characterization. A host of characters and back story requires the reader to be always vigilant to maintain a grasp on the story line. Many of these characters including the preacher and the whores evoke a true sense of a multifaceted culture that is fragile to the extent that one gunshot can change the course of history.

The sure knowledge that no one in this era could every relax with a sense of peace and safety carries the reader along with a with a sense of angst over what violent act will next unfold to reveal yet more darkness in the human soul.

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Living close to a fatal edge

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2011

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Robert Flynn's "Jade: Outlaw" begins with a puzzle. Everyone who knows Jade's story says of him, "I don't know if I could do it, but he did the right thing." Eventually you find out what he did. Was it the right thing? Even by the end of the novel you may not be sure, but by the end of the novel more is at stake, and for Jade doing the right thing is much more complicated.

The novel is set somewhere in west Texas, sometime in the 1870s. Most of the story takes place in a very small community close to a spring and straddling a trail used by trains of freight wagons, which Jade escorts from time to time as a hired gun. But this is not "Have Gun, Will Travel." Neither is it "Once Upon a Time in the West." It feels and sounds much more authentic: two cultures at each other's throats, neither understanding the other, praise and punishment dealt, sometimes randomly, by the people themselves. And both the community of white settlers and the Indians can be, at the same time or in turn, loving and spiteful, generous and vicious. Ranchers who resent the presence of newcomers (farmers!) complicate things, but that's not the heart of the story. It does make clear, however, how close to a fatal edge everyone's life in the 1870s in Texas really was.

Names are important. Everybody knows that Jade's given name is Riley O'Conner. Everybody knows that the white woman who lives just outside the community is named Crow Poison. They also know that her husband was an Indian, and before they will let her live even on the outskirts of their community she has to prove that she is white. After he falls in love with this woman, Jade changes her name to Rain. Mattie, who lives in the shack behind the saloon, is known by many as Killer, though she bitterly resents the name. In the course of the novel, we do find out how these people earned their names, and in every instance it is important to the story. Mattie is the most tragic figure in the novel, the one whose fate breaks our hearts.

Jade hates Indians, perhaps for good reason, and kills them when he has the opportunity. Crow Poison has loved an Indian, and she has had a child, a son who was killed, perhaps by Jade himself. We watch Jade and Rain fall in love, each suspicious of the other, each asking the other, "How, why, could you?" Each has an answer, though they both realize that the other will never accept it. They both realize how impossible any life together would be for them.

But by the end of the novel we think we know what, for them, would be the right thing to do. In fact, we're pretty sure we know.

Like all the best of Robert Flynn's writing, this novel will put you, intensely, into its own world. And that world will stay with you long after you realize that, deep down, it may be closer to the world you live in than you could have imagined.

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Chris Pennywitt

Jade: Outlaw is a Truly Compelling Love Story, A Great Read!

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2014

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Robert Flynn has created a worthy successor to the Lonesome Dove Series in this wonderfully authentic Texas story of an Indian fighter outlaw named Jade who falls for a beautiful woman raised by Indians and must deal with all the various factions fighting each other in the 1870's. This is an amazing tapestry of finely crafted characters and a truly compelling love story!

Christopher Pennywitt

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2014

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This is a great read! Robert Flynn has created a wonderful western novel filled with unforgettable characters and a great love story!

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Emm

Complete rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 21, 2019

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I read about 5 pages of this drivel and gave up to start a book that hasn't been written as part of a GCSE level creative writing course.

NOT RECOMMENDED!

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