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ESCAPE FROM FIVE SHADOWS
by LEONARD, ELMORE
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956., 1956. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author on a pictorial label and laid-in. Author's third Western novel. Former owner's [Veterans Administration National Library] embossed stamp on the title page else a fine copy in dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine and with a hint of wear to the spine ends. Wrongly convicted and imprisoned in the brutal labor camp at Five Shadows, Corey Bowen is an innocent man. The camp is run by a sadistic tyrant for his own personal gain, it was a place of scorching sun, sweat, sudden and simmering hate. Bowen is determined to break out or die trying. The trackers have already caught him once, dragged him back through the mesquite and rocks, and beat him near death after his last attempt. This time, he’ll have help from a lady with murder on her mind and a debt to pay back. They say that breaking out of Five Shadows is impossible, but Bowen is a different breed—and this time he will go to any extreme to escape.
Synopsis
No one breaks out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows -- but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. They framed him to put him in there, and beat him bloody and nearly dead after his last escape attempt. He'll have help this time -- from a lady with murder on her mind and a debt to pay back. Because freedom isn't enough for primed dynamite like Bowen. And he won't leave the corrupt desert hell behind him until a few scores are settled...permanently.
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- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48753
- Title
- ESCAPE FROM FIVE SHADOWS
- Author
- LEONARD, ELMORE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1956
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