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Tucker
First published 1971
Shell Tucker moves through mining and cattle country with a reputation that offers protection but also attracts danger. Betrayal and violence have taught him to rely on himself, yet the harder he works to survive by that rule, the more difficult it becomes to escape the assumptions attached to a man known for his gun.
The novel follows Tucker through a western society where reputation can precede fact and where one violent encounter can determine how every later stranger sees him. His problem is not simply staying alive; it is deciding whether the skills that preserved him in the past will trap him permanently in the same kind of life.
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