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John Wesley Hardin
(1982)(The eighth book in the Hart: The Regulator series)
A novel by John B Harvey (John Harvey)
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JOHN WESLEY HARDIN
Wes Hart - ex-soldier, ex-Texas Ranger, ex-rider with Billy the Kid. He's tough, ruthless and slick with a .45. He's for hire now and he isn't cheap. In the old West, gunfighting was a trade you started early. Wes Hart killed his first man when he was still in his teens and so did John Wesley Hardin. Hardin went on to carve himself a notch in the history books, if it's a notch you merit when you're an outlaw with all the virtues of a renegade rattlesnake. There's a posse of Rangers who've marked Hardin down for the reckoning. Riding with them is Wes Hart, the Regulator...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Initially a teacher of English and Drama, John Harvey began writing in 1975, and now has over 100 published books to his credit. The first of his celebrated Charlie Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century. In 2007 he received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing, and in 2009 he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Nottingham.
A published poet, John ran Slow Dancer Press for nearly twenty years; in addition, he has written many scripts for television and radio, including dramatisations of novels by Graham Greene and A.S. Byatt and (with Shelley Silas) Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet.
John was one of the original 'Piccadilly Cowboys' and the Herne the Hunter series, was co-written with Laurence James under the name 'John J. McLaglen'.
John Harvey comments: "The qualities I most admire in prose are an uncluttered and spare style and clarity and pace of narrative; hopefully the more successful of my own writing comes close to achieving these things. In the Western I'm interested in finding a balance between the myth of the West (as it comes through American literature and film) and the historical reality. Increasingly, I'm concerned to attempt to make a stronger place for women in the Western, which is traditionally a refuge of masculinity and male fantasy.
Genre: Western
JOHN WESLEY HARDIN
Wes Hart - ex-soldier, ex-Texas Ranger, ex-rider with Billy the Kid. He's tough, ruthless and slick with a .45. He's for hire now and he isn't cheap. In the old West, gunfighting was a trade you started early. Wes Hart killed his first man when he was still in his teens and so did John Wesley Hardin. Hardin went on to carve himself a notch in the history books, if it's a notch you merit when you're an outlaw with all the virtues of a renegade rattlesnake. There's a posse of Rangers who've marked Hardin down for the reckoning. Riding with them is Wes Hart, the Regulator...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Initially a teacher of English and Drama, John Harvey began writing in 1975, and now has over 100 published books to his credit. The first of his celebrated Charlie Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century. In 2007 he received the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing, and in 2009 he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Nottingham.
A published poet, John ran Slow Dancer Press for nearly twenty years; in addition, he has written many scripts for television and radio, including dramatisations of novels by Graham Greene and A.S. Byatt and (with Shelley Silas) Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet.
John was one of the original 'Piccadilly Cowboys' and the Herne the Hunter series, was co-written with Laurence James under the name 'John J. McLaglen'.
John Harvey comments: "The qualities I most admire in prose are an uncluttered and spare style and clarity and pace of narrative; hopefully the more successful of my own writing comes close to achieving these things. In the Western I'm interested in finding a balance between the myth of the West (as it comes through American literature and film) and the historical reality. Increasingly, I'm concerned to attempt to make a stronger place for women in the Western, which is traditionally a refuge of masculinity and male fantasy.
Genre: Western
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