Resolution
by Robert B. Parker
List Price:
Our Price: $11.83
You Save: $14.12 (54%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $11.00 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Robert B. ParkerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 039915504X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Book Reviews of Resolution
Book Review: How would you cast the movie?
Summary: 2 Stars
I enjoyed reading this book and savored a few turns of phrase, but was surprised by the lack of originality in an author I have rarely read but often heard praised.
As I was reading, I kept casting the movie. The novel reads like a screenplay; short chapter, then fade to the next scene (oops, chapter). I periodically felt like I was developing cliche overload. Laconic gunslingers, mercenary and heartless bar owner, mercenary and heartless mine owner, staunch and colorful sawmill owner, hardworking but clueless "sod busters", needy but admirable hooker, spunky farmer's wife.... Haven't I seen this somewhere before, probably starring Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford, or Jimmy Stewart? With Ron Steiger or Ernest Borgnine in a supporting role? I liked what I read and enjoyed the characters in the novel, just felt that there was nothing new or particularly interesting being imparted.
I don't usually read books of the western genre, but recently read Shavetail by Thomas Cobb and found it to be considerably more compelling than Mr. Parkers highly derivative novel.
Summary of Resolution
The New York Times-bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.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 lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms-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.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Great New Mystery Books
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)by James Lee Burke
Pocket; Published: 2008-06-17; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.06
Price in other shops:
In the Absence of Honorby Jim Proebstle
Emerald Book Company; Published: 2008-08-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.93
Price in other shops:
Bones to Ashes: A Novel (Temperance Brennan Novels)by Kathy Reichs
Pocket Star; Published: 2008-06-24; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.33
Price in other shops:
Secrets: A Novelby Jude Deveraux
Atria; Published: 2008-06-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $19.67
Price in other shops:
Three in Death (In Death)by J.D. Robb
Berkley; Published: 2008-01-29; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.65
Price in other shops:
A Fatal Waltzby Tasha Alexander
William Morrow; Published: 2008-05-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.95
Price in other shops:
Case Histories: A Novelby Kate Atkinson
Little, Brown and Company; Published: 2008-09-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.99
Where Memories Lie: A Novel (Duncan Kincaid/ Gemma James Novels)by Deborah Crombie
William Morrow; Published: 2008-07-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops:
The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)by Andrea Camilleri
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2008-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.84
Price in other shops:
I Heard That Song Before: A Novelby Mary Higgins Clark
Pocket; Published: 2008-02-26; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.98
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Hold Tightby Harlan Coben
Dutton Adult; Published: 2008-04-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.24
Price in other shops:
Santa Fe Deadby Stuart Woods
Putnam Adult; Published: 2008-04-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.34
Price in other shops:
The Whole Truthby David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 2008-04-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.50
Price in other shops:
Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novelby James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2008-07-08; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.97
Price in other shops:
Now and Thenby Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult; Published: 2007-10-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.02
Price in other shops:
Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport Mysteries)by John Sandford
Putnam Adult; Published: 2008-05-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.80
Price in other shops:
Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole)by Robert Crais
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2008-07-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $9.40
Price in other shops:
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)by Lee Child
Delacorte Press; Published: 2008-06-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.75
Price in other shops:
Stranger in Paradise (Jesse Stone Novels)by Robert B. Parker
Putnam Adult; Published: 2008-02-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.43
Price in other shops:
The Boxer and the Spyby Robert B. Parker
Philomel; Published: 2008-05-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.03
Price in other shops: