Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East

Meet Red Saunders, a man who solves problems the way most people create them. It's 1902 and the American West is still wild enough to reward a quick trigger finger and a faster mouth. When Red isn't trading gunfire with Frosthead's band or outdrinking his best friend Reddy, he's talking his way into trouble he could easily talk his way out of, if he only paused long enough to try. Phillips writes with the kind of deadpan humor that made frontier tall tales legendary, grounding his action in plain-spoken reality while never taking the whole spectacle too seriously. This is adventure fiction before the genre learned to frown. For readers who want their Westerns served with a grin and a gunbelt.