Stranger from the Tonto

Name: Stranger from the Tonto
Rating: 4.23 (465 reviews)

by Zane Grey

First published 1956

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A stranger carrying a divided past enters the canyon country around the San Juan and Colorado rivers, a region remote enough to shelter people who do not want to be found. His arrival brings him into contact with an outlaw refuge and with a woman whose danger makes remaining uninvolved impossible.

The inaccessible landscape gives criminals protection but also traps everyone within the same narrow world of suspicion and concealed identity. Rescue and survival gradually depend on revealing truths that several characters have tried to bury, turning the stranger’s attempt to remain anonymous into a test of whether he can act openly when another life is at stake.