Blue-Eyed Devil

The extraordinary new Western from the New York Times- bestselling author, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
Law
enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there
was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town,
the chief invited us to the office for a talk.
The new
chief is Amos Callico: a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on
his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man
with his eye on the governorship-and perhaps the presidency-he wants
Cole and Hitch on his side. But they can't be bought, which upsets him
mightily.
When Callico begins shaking down local merchants for
protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of
Cole and Hitch. But the guns for hire are thorns in the side of the
power-hungry chief. When they are forced to fire on the trigger-happy
son of a politically connected landowner, Callico sees his dream begin
to crumble. There will be a showdown-but who'll be left standing?