Journey of the Dead

Name: Journey of the Dead
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Loren D. Estleman
ISBN: 9781456123758

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/04/2011

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

An authority on the American West, award winner Loren D. Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. In Journey of the Dead, Spanish alchemist Franciso de la Zaragoza-more than a hundred years old and known as a wise man and healer-and Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who killed Billy the Kid, meet. The men share their stories, evoking the wonder of the Old West as they wrestle with possible answers to their deepest questions. "[Estleman's] best yet. Enthusiastically recommended."-Library Journal

About Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 19, 2024

Book Review #309 Pat Garrett was 6’ 5” - a very tall law man - and is best known for arresting and later killing Billy the Kid. “Journey of the Dead” is a bit of an immersive character study that shows us Garrett’s place in the old west. The long, at-times engrossing and at-other-times creepy narrativ......more

Goodreads review by ChiChi on March 31, 2022

Gosh. Don't know where to start! Really well written, Estleman convincingly portrayed the West for me, I could easily see it, feel it, smell it. He did a wonderful job of telling a story of the west through the end of the Civil War through to the early 1900's. Good read. And yes, it is filled with t......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 14, 2021

Estleman at his best! The literary Western lives.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 25, 2018

😩. Very difficult to listen to. For me a very uninteresting book. Painful really..........more