Book cover for The Silver Revolver: A Western Crime Thriller by John Shirley

The Silver Revolver

A Western Crime Thriller

2025 Released
356 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Rough Edges PressISBN 9781685496630

A grieving father, a brutal overdose, a silver revolver-and nothing left to lose.

Slim Purdoux was once just another ex-con trying to go straight. After doing time in Texas for drugs, he landed a miracle job as a book editor in San Francisco. But fate had other plans. When his only son dies of a fentanyl overdose-and Slim is mistakenly caught up in a mass shooting-the weight of grief, rage, and injustice drives him to a dangerous edge.

Now hunted by cops and haunted by loss, Slim returns to the only thing he was ever good at: shooting fast and shooting straight. Armed with a custom silver revolver and a lifetime of regret, he plunges into the violent heart of the American underworld to settle the score with the cartel that killed his son.

What follows is a gritty modern western wrapped in a blood-soaked crime thriller, where vengeance is a drug stronger than anything on the streets-and justice is a bullet away.

Will Slim survive the war he starts? Or will the truth about his past destroy him before he even gets close?

The Silver Revolver is a feverish, unflinching dive into the darkest corners of vigilante justice, addiction, and the price of revenge.

John Shirley

John Shirley has written novels, short stories, as well as collaborating on lyrics for the band Blue Oyster Cult, and the screenplay for the cult classic film The Crow. Amoung his many novels are the Westerns Wyatt in Wichita, and the Sundown Riders series coauthored with Ralph Compton. He currently lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife. You can learn more at www.john-shirley.com
 

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