Random House USA Inc Flint: A Novel

A soft-spoken, quick-drawing sharpshooter returns to his home in the badlands of the Southwest and discovers that his enemies have hired a gunman to kill him Rich beyond belief and despised by many, Flint comes home to die of cancer with no one at his side, until Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher, needs his help in saving her ranch, and only Flint has the resources and skills to help her before his time runs out. Reissue. He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America—and one of the most feared and hated.Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime, and Buckdun, a notorious assassin, is there to back his play.Flint alone can help Nancy save her ranch with his cash, his connections—and his gun. He still has his legendary will to fight. All he needs is time, and that’s fast running out . Autorid: Louis L'Amour