The Violent Peace

By George G. Gilman,

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated whilst at the theater in Washington. A great and honorable President is mourned by many, but his passing brings rejoicing to those Southerners defeated in the Civil War.
Adam Steele finds he has a private grief to mourn, when he discovers the body of his fatherā€¦

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Much like Italian filmmakers managed to create the spaghetti western by riffing on the genre from an ocean away, English pulp writers created the Piccadilly Western: violent, cynical, sometimes even too edgy for its own good. The Adam Steele books often verge on tastelessness with their violence and insensitivity, but thatā€™s relieved by a sort of dark humorā€”often groan-inducing. It can be a lot to take, but for those who prefer too much to too littleā€¦ Adam Steele is definitely not too little. The first book has Civil War hero Steele going outlaw to avenge his murdered father, with hisā€¦

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