Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell

Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell

Author:Mary Doria Russell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins


FROM THE START, the posse had traveled light. Bedrolls on the ground. Whatever they could carry in their saddlebags. Nine days out, they were thirsty, hungry, filthy, sore, and bone-tired when Frank Leslie’s little bay gelding crumpled up beneath him.

He stepped off as the horse went down. Everyone else just sat there staring at the animal for a while.

“Damn,” Frank said, his voice like a metal rasp. “I liked that horse.”

“Frank,” Virgil croaked, “is there a chance in hell we’re gonna find these bastards?”

“No,” the tracker admitted. “Lost ’em for good.”

“Well, boys, we’re done,” Virgil said. “At least we got one of ’em.”

Luther King, he meant. But he was already wrong about that.



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