by Leo Brent Robillard
Trade Paperback | Turnstone Press 2004 | ISBN 0-88801-301-9 |
$18.95CAD
Jesse James. Billy the Kid. Butch and Sundance. The true lives of these outlaws have been lost, rendered irrelevant by more than a century of speculation and myth; some question whether they ever existed at all.
Not Ewen "Wyoming" McGinnis. In 1901, at the age of 20, Wyoming rides away from Butch and Sundance for the last time, after learning how to fall out of the sky onto rushing trains and pull off congenial bank robberies as part of their Wild Bunch.
As Butch and Sundance head south toward Bolivia and legendary status, Wyoming rides north with a splintered faction of the gang. But with Butch and Sundance gone, Wyoming discovers that the life of an outlaw is much more dangerous than those famous Robin Hoods made it out to be, a realization that settles when he is made party to a brutal murder.
Now Wyoming is on the run from his own gang, a Pinkerton detective, and a romanticized lifestyle that is rapidly disappearing under the boot of industry. Little does he know that his flight for Alberta will not only be an escape from his pursuers, but a chance at love, learning and leaving Wyoming forever.
by Leo Brent Robillard
Chapbook | Bad Moon Books 2004 | ISBN 1-896634-17-6 |
$3.00CAD
Jameson Lee returns home to a job in the Rideau County Legal Aid office after a scandal in Toronto almost has him disbarred. Determined to jump start his career once again, he agrees to defend two local men in a high profile murder trial -- only his clients do not wish to be defended. The mystery surrounding their alleged crime, and their behaviour in the face of First Degree Murder charges, plunges Jameson into an unpopular investigation of his own.
With his marriage and his career in a shambles, Jameson finds temptation in an autistic woman as his world spirals out of control, and he realises -- perhaps too late -- that he has not seen the forest for the trees.
