Hey Cowboy Wanna Get Lucky?

The bestselling novel from America's premier cowboy poet. <p/> Cowboys Lick and Cody are on a quest to qualify for the rodeo national finals--and their widely entertaining often hilarious adventure includes a smattering of sex violence intrigue and the occasional philosophical rumination. These modern-day cowpokes--two chivalrous knights of the rope and range with a hankering for bucking broncos and for the female of the two-legged species--find much more than they bargained for in Oklahoma City. Against the colorful flamboyant backdrop of the hard-ridin' hard-playin' rodeo circuit they encounter a city woman named Lilac with whom Cody falls in love; a bull named Kamikaze; and two corrupt Texas billionaires who bet against Lick. In the vein of a latter-day Will Rogers Baxter Black combines a colorful yarn with occasional bits of his unique cowboy philosophy and poetry. <p/> It could make a dead man sit up and laugh--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>