PALE MOON

by W.R. Burnett ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 18, 1956

Doan Packer comes to San Miguel in the Southwest, recovering from a chattered political career, a broken marriage, and an injured . And there he comes up against the one man rule of Jake Starr, who controlled everyone except his daughter Opal whose pale face concealed an incalculable Comanche heart. Jake, drunk and brutal in his last years, in ambushed- and Opal marries Doan, groome him to succeed Jake in the next election. But when his ponent is also killed, after a dirty scuffle in which Packer's own past is revived- Doan is the last to figure that Opal has killed him, as she had killed her father, but that she will die to save him now.... For those who remember Adobe Walls, this is again a western with a difference and it is an effortlessly effective type of action adventure.

Pub Date: June 18, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION