Edge 24
by George G. Gilman (Terry Harknett)
Pinnacle 1977
Edge wanders into a town in the middle of a political struggle. One side is the son of a shady land baron who previously ran the town, the other a newcomer who hires mercenaries as deputies and promises to sell the land to the townspeople. With murky motivation, Edge settles in a hotel and shoots anyone that pisses him off.
Edge aligns himself with a black hotel owner, and the two discover that the prior landowner has paid of some vicious drunk Sioux Indians as muscle. Everyone quickly figures out this is a bad idea, and all parties band together to face an invasion.
Some gruesome Indian torture and almost a full page description of the effects of a double barreled shotgun against a human torso. This is my first Edge book, and I was less than impressed by the reputed humor of the character, consisting mostly of wry anachronistic puns.
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