{"product_id":"the-unkillable-frank-lightning-by-josh-rountree","title":"The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrade Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn this riveting historical horror novel, \u003c\/i\u003eFrankenstein\u003ci\u003e is vividly reimagined in the Wild West. With equal parts Cormac McCarthy, Mary Shelley, and Stephen Graham Jones, Rountree deftly navigates the terrible aftermath of love and death.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: A doctor, an occultist, and, briefly, a widow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine's husband, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, she used her formidable skills to resurrect him. But Frank lost his soul after the reanimation, and disappeared after a killing spree. Unable to face her failure and its murderous consequences, Catherine fled to grieve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-five years later, Catherine has decided she must make things right. She travels back to Texas with a pair of hired killers ready to destroy Frank. But Frank has remade himself as the Unkillable Frank Lightning, traveling with the Wild West Show.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaching for a last chance at redemption, Frank and Catherine are at an impasse. As time runs out, their final choices may result in considerable bloodshed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“What begins as \u003ci\u003eThe Searchers\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e ends as \u003ci\u003eUnforgiven\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Magicians\u003c\/i\u003e. A dark, brooding meditation on both what we’ll do for love, and the callous indifference of the hardened souls of the early West.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—C. Robert Cargill, co-screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Phone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tachyon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49610731290817,"sku":"JROUNTREE-FRANKLIGHTNING","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0367\/4406\/9251\/files\/71-gE2AIswL._SL1500.jpg?v=1760895554","url":"https:\/\/greenhandbookshop.com\/products\/the-unkillable-frank-lightning-by-josh-rountree","provider":"Green Hand Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}