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"If he tries to leave with nothing, shoot him once. If he takes the saddle bag, shoot him twice. If he picks up the water, empty your gun."

Continuing my complete reading of Elmore Leonard. A great early novel and my second Western overall. It's more like crime fiction disguised as a western! Of course 'the crime' is only the backdrop for a great character driven story told through a rare first person narrator for Leonard.
Thrilling when it needed to be and takes off best when our main characters interaction with each other directly. Some of the foreshadowing provided by our narrator takes takes bit of the suspense out toward the end, but it's a great read overall. I can see why it holds up as one of the best in the Western genre and signs of great things to come for Leonard the author.