The Master Executioner

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Loren D. Estleman delivers a haunting and masterful tale of the American West in <em>The Master Executioner</em>.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Oscar Stone is a craftsman unlike any other-his art lies in the gallows where he ensures death is swift and precise. But as the bodies mount so do the questions about justice humanity and the price of a life spent wielding death. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When a shadow from his past resurfaces Stone is forced to confront the truth about himself-and the cost of a life spent in the service of death. Set against the gritty backdrop of frontier law and vengeance Stone's story is one of profound complexity where morality and duty clash.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mr. Estleman movingly conveys the brutalizing effects of killing for the law even when you are terribly good at it. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-<em>The Economist</em></strong></p>