The Master Executioner
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Loren D. Estleman delivers a haunting and masterful tale of the American West in The Master Executioner.
Oscar Stone is a craftsman unlike any other-his art lies in the gallows, where he ensures death is swift and precise. But as the bodies mount, so do the questions about justice, humanity, and the price of a life spent wielding death.
When a shadow from his past resurfaces, Stone is forced to confront the truth about himself-and the cost of a life spent in the service of death. Set against the gritty backdrop of frontier law and vengeance, Stone's story is one of profound complexity, where morality and duty clash.
"Mr. Estleman movingly conveys the brutalizing effects of killing for the law, even when you are terribly good at it." -The Economist
Loren Estleman
Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature. He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received four Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective
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