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Critically acclaimed publisher Thomas Cobb's second book is a "thoughtful European" (Publishers Weekly) predicated on the actual incidents of the 1871 Camp Give massacre. With Shavetail, Cobb offers a masterly tale of a young man's initiation in to the brutality of issue. When 17-year-old runaway Ned Thorne joins Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Give outpost, located at the border of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains, he enters into a world of bloodstream and redemption. Franklin, still reeling from a failed plan, seizes on the chance to make amends when a local farmhouse is raided-and a woman kidnapped-by renegade Apaches. Both Franklin and Thorne will find, however, that challenge leaves scars that there is absolutely no salve. A wealthy display of elegiac prose, Shavetail offers a tale both meditative and driven by a violent strength. Narrator Tom Stechschulte stations the author's stunning descriptions of surroundings and a completely realized cast of characters.
