Name: The Last Ride
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Author: Thomas Eidson
ISBN: 9780007181353

Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Eidson

Publisher

HarperCollins

Language

English

Pages

306

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780007181353

Synopsis "The Last Ride"

A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace. The Last Ride is the story of Maggie Gilkeson, a young woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers, Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father to rescue her. The killer and his brutal cult of desperados have kidnapped several other teenage girls, leaving a trail of death and horror across the desolate landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her father are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear forever. The Last Ride is the story of a race against time and death, a powerful tale of rescue and reconciliation that provides a haunting insight into our instincts of kinship and need for beliefs.

Thomas Eidson

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Thomas Eidson (born in 1944) is an American author known for his novels set in the 19th century Old West. He began his literary career at the age of 50 with St. Agnes' Stand (1994), which was praised for its narrative and setting.

His most notable work is The Last Ride (1995), published in Spanish as La última galopada. This novel was adapted into a film in 2003 by director Ron Howard under the title The Missing (Desapariciones in some Spanish-speaking countries), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. Eidson continued to explore the western genre with titles such as All God's Children (1996) and Hannah's Gift (1998), establishing himself as a notable voice in contemporary American Western literature.

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