The Consequences of Preserving Outlaws in Arsenic

Outlaw 'Oklahoma Bill' McCready just wants to get home. The only thing stopping him is that he's dead, mummified and hanging in a Californian dark ride. Orphan, Johnny Redfeather, doesn't know where home is. Raised in the circus he's determined to run away and find his long lost grandfather, Oklahoma Bill. The last time Becky Redfeather saw Oklahoma Bill he was face down in her daddy's farmyard, riddled with bullet holes. He'd broken her sister's heart and her father's spirit. That was...
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Outlaw 'Oklahoma Bill' McCready just wants to get home. The only thing stopping him is that he's dead, mummified and hanging in a Californian dark ride. Orphan, Johnny Redfeather, doesn't know where home is. Raised in the circus he's determined to run away and find his long lost grandfather, Oklahoma Bill. The last time Becky Redfeather saw Oklahoma Bill he was face down in her daddy's farmyard, riddled with bullet holes. He'd broken her sister's heart and her father's spirit. That was fifty years ago. When Johnny unexpectedly arrives at her farm, bringing a fifteen year old runaway called Luella with him, the doors to the past and future are blown wide open. Together they set off to track down Bill's corpse but Johnny has stirred up trouble on his way to Becky's - the kind of trouble that might get them all killed.Quote:'This is your ordinary boy meets girl story, only one where the boy is an inept outlaw who gets shot and mummified and the girl is a gun-slinging Calamity Jane style single-mother. Inspired by the true (after) life exploits of one Elmer McCurdy, Consequences is a rollickingly fast-paced comic thriller concerning lonely teenager Johnny and a quest to find his perfectly preserved grandfather, Oklahoma Bill (the outlaw of the title). In part this is a western, in part magical fantasy, but what carries the novel best is the author's choice to narrate a large chunk of the story through the eyes of the long dead protagonist. Beautiful prose expertly brings together well-defined characters from past and present in an imaginatively told tale of the world's oddest family reunion.' Andrew Graves, LeftLion Magazine