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 enlarge | Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
Buy New: $9.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 339095
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0425227995
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780425227992
ASIN: 0425227995
Publication Date: May 5, 2009 (In 116 Days)
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Product Description
Features the main characters first introduced in Appaloosa now a major motion picture from New Line Cinema.
A greedy mine owner threatens the coalition of local ranchers in the town of Resolution, pitching two honorable gunfighters, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, into a make-shift war thatll challenge their friendship and the violently shifting laws of the West.
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 Frontier justice and the men who employed it January 6, 2009
Mr. Parker's deadly but honorable gunmen Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole are back in this moody, entertaining follow-up to the author's "Appaloosa". Like the earlier book, Mr. Parker explores the nature of an Old America slowly making way for a new, more civilized nation. The problem is that, Old America, for all its danger and savagery and prejudice, was a place where "right" often had a standing chance of winning over "legal", especially when expert killers like Hitch and Cole were in one's corner.
New America, conversely, has no room for a Hitch or a Cole, where lawyers and money enable the easy foreclosure on decent folks whose only crime is a difficulty in making ends meet. Imagine today's bankers, landowners, and landlords having to deal with a Hitch or a Cole protecting late-paying tenants and homeowners, as they do here.
"Resolution" and its predecessor take place during that grey period where the good and bad aspects of Old America are still prevalent, but definitely making way for the good and bad aspects of New America. Cole and Virgil know that they're slowly but steadily becoming dinosaurs, and it's sad to see them feel the itch to move from town to town (Appaloosa in the first book, Resolution in this one, and presumbably Brimstone in the upcoming third installment), trying to find those remaining strong pockets of Old America where their talents can be put to good use.
Old America may be long gone, but one hopes that Mr. Parker's poetic yet incisive series covering the waning days of that memorable period will still go on a while longer.
A FINE-BUT-UNEVEN SEQUEL TO "APPALOOSA." December 30, 2008
Robert B. Parker's follow-up to "Appaloosa," "Resolution" continues the story of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. This book is not as good or as funny as the previous entry. It is not as consistent in its narrative, and the great interplay between Hitch and Cole that was the defining aspect of "Appaloosa" is missing for the most part. Still, this story features some great characerization, humor, and western suspense that fans will surely enjoy, and does leave one ready for the next installment.
Grade: B+
Whats Not To Like? December 13, 2008
If your a western novel fan, you'll be glad you found this book. I can't wait to read the next volume--if it is in the cards. It's a no-nonsense shoot-em-up with toughguys and evil badguys galore. The main lawdogs are obviously existentialist (as all good lead slingers are, thanks to Eastwoods "Man-with-no name" setting the pace), and don't take flak from anyone.
Maybe the real west was nothing like this, but it would be great if it was.
Do not compare this with "Lonesome Dove" or "Blood Meridian." Those books seem to be what all modern westerns are compared with. Why, I don't know. Parker is in a class of his own.
Resolution November 24, 2008
"Resolution" follows "Appaloosa". Hitch leaves the town of Appaloosa to go his own way. Hitch comes to the town of Resolution and takes a job in a tavern to assure there is no trouble, working for Amos Wolfson. There is no law in Resolution. Hitch finds himself in a role of peacemaker because he is good with a gun and people trust him.
Conflicts develop between the town's businessmen for control. As a result Hitch is useful to Wolfson since he owns the town's tavern, hotel,store, and bank.
Cole eventually arrives in town to visit Hitch. Hitch and Cole resume their friendship and Wolfson is the beneficary, at least, he thinks he is the boss. But Cole and Hitch take on the role of self appointed peacemakers. Their gun fighting skills put them in a role to stop Wolfson's greedy intentions with homesteaders and other town folks.
Please let there be a film adaptation of Resolution! November 16, 2008
After having read Appaloosa and then seeing the movie version of it with Ed Harris as Virgil Cole and Viggo Mortensen as Everett Hitch, I found myself visualizing those two great actors when reading Robert B. Parker's newest western novel, Resolution. Harris and Mortensen captured the two lead characters perfectly, bringing them to life in ways that are still clearly etched in my mind; and, like with Tom Selleck in the TV movies based on the "Jesse Stone" series, Resolution simply reads better when I have familiar faces to put on the main characters.
Resolution begins basically where Appaloosa left off. Everett Hitch has left town after killing Randall Bragg in a gunfight, saving Virgil Cole from having to do it and thereby breaking his own rules for justice. Hitch rides into the small town of Resolution and quickly discovers an opening in Amos Wolfson's saloon for keeping the peace in a rather lawless town. Using his infamous eight-gauge shotgun, Hitch shoots the local gunslinger and bully, who just so happens to work for Eamon O'Malley, the owner of Resolution's one and only gold mine. To make matters worse, it seems that Wolfson and O'Malley are each vying for control of the town. O'Malley then hires two gunslingers (Cate and Rose) to take on Hitch, but they all know of each other's reputations as a gunfighter and wisely decide to allow things to take their own course. That's when Virgil Cole rides into town. He's come to visit Hitch and to tell him about Ms. Ellie taking off with another man and heading to Texas. He wants Hitch to go with him as he tracks her down. Hitch, however, isn't ready to leave Resolution. There's a showdown approaching as O'Malley brings in a small army of killers to take on Cole & Hitch. That's when Cato & Rose decide to change sides in order to make the odds a little better for the two ex-lawmen, and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what happens in this utterly entertaining western.
Like with the "Spenser" and "Jesse Stone" series, Robert B. Parker knows how to create believable characters that seem to come to life on the written page. All of the characters in the book, both good and bad, have their own unique personalities and the dialoque between them crackles with wit, intelligence, and emotion. After over thirty years as an author, Parker knows how to write great dialogue. There's also enough historical information included to satisfy those looking for factual westerns. What really makes the novel work, however, is the strong personal relationship between Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. They know each other as human beings and love each other as brothers, and they certainly have the best dialogue of anyone in the book. Cole is also forced to take hard, cold look at his own belief system regarding his views on justice and killing, and what actually makes him a man. Parker includes several shootouts in the novel, making them as realistic as possible, an uprising that's short lived by the Indians living on the nearby reservation, the unification of the local ranchers to fight Wolfson and his own greed for controlling everything in sight, and the unusual duo of Cato and Rose, who are similar to Cole and Hitch in that they have their own set of rules to live by and try to do what's right when killing people.
All in all, Resolution is the perfect sequel to Appaloosa, bringing back to the two lawmen who could've given Wyatt Earp a run for his money. Never fear, because Cole and Hitch will definitely return in a third novel as they travel to Texas in search of Ms. Ellie.
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