A THOUSAND FALLING CROWS
Book ID/图书代码： 02173016B88651
English Summary/英文概要： Sonny Burton was forced to retire from the Texas Rangers after taking a bullet from Bonnie Parker in a shoot-out. The bullet so damaged Sonny’s right arm that he had to have it amputated.
While Sonny struggles with recuperating and tries to get used to the idea of living a life with only one arm, Aldo Hernandez, the hospital’s janitor, asks Sonny to help find his daughter and bring her back home. She has got herself mixed up with a couple of brothers involved in a string of robberies. Sonny agrees to help, but is more concerned about a wholly different criminal in town who has taken to killing young women and leaving them in local fields for crows to feast on.
Just as Sonny is able to track down Aldo’s daughter, he comes to an uncomfortable realization about who might be responsible for the string of murders and races to nab the killer before another girl is left to the crows.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Sonny Burton因为和Bonnie Parker之间发生枪战，吃了他一颗子弹，而不得不从巡逻队退休了。Sonny的右手手臂因为那颗子弹的关系而不得不接受截肢。
当Sonny忙着康复训练并努力习惯于只有一条手臂的生活时，他和医院的清洁工Aldo Hermandez交上了朋友。Aldo希望Sonny能够帮助他寻找他的女儿并把她带回家。她和一群抢劫犯纠缠在一起。Sonny答应了帮忙，但更关心镇上出现的一个新罪犯，他接连杀害年轻女性，将她们的尸体扔在田野等待乌鸦啄食。
当Sonny一路追踪Aldo的女儿时，他终于意识到了这一切谋杀的源头可能是谁，并努力在又一个女孩子被弃尸之前抓住那个人。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：德州巡逻员Sonny Burton因为失去一条手臂而必须辞去工作。在手术的恢复过程中，他和医院清洁工Aldo Hernandez交上了朋友，Aldo帮助他适应新的生活。Aldo的女儿失踪了，Aldo恐怕她正在和危险的Renaldo家的双胞胎在一起。Sonny能否找到她？Sonny是一个坏脾气的警察，不喜欢新东西，但当他真正面对危险的时候也能够忍气吞声暂时屈居人下。喜欢Craig Johnson的《Walt Longmire》或者Steven F. Havill的《Bill Gastner》的读者一定也会喜欢这部设定在西部的作品。（Karen Keefe，Booklist）
Sweazy创作了一部以美国西部为背景的有力的、吸引人的小说。谋杀和逃亡双线并进，让读者仿佛驰骋在德州粗粝的平原之上，故事线最终因为血和子弹交织在一起。Sweazy的处理果决也营造了很好的氛围，这是一部犯罪小说中的经典之作。只有一条手臂的Sonny Burton带领读者走进危险的戏剧化的恐怖氛围。（Mark Pryor，著有《Hollow Man》）
氛围营造得很好，血腥，引人入胜，充满神秘元素的恐怖小说，角色设定让人信服。Larry D. Sweazy很好地描绘了绝望世代的德州场景。（Johnny D. Boggs，著有《Northfield and Greasy Grass》）
About the Author/作者介绍： Larry D. Sweazy著有《See Also Murder》、《Vengeance at Sundown》等等小说。他是2005年WWA Spur最佳短篇小说奖得主，2013年还获得过最佳原创平装本奖，2011年和2012年两度因为Josiah Wolfe系列而获得Will Rogers Medallion西部小说奖。2007年，他曾被提名Derringer奖，2010年入围了最佳印第安文学作品竞赛决赛，2011年因为《The Scorpion Trail》终于获此殊荣。此外，他还发表了超过六十篇非文学作品和短篇故事。他是全球恐怖小说作家协会会员，美国西部作家协会会员和西部小说家协会会员。
Larry D. Sweazy is the author of See Also Murder, Vengeance at Sundown, The Gila Wars, The Coyote Tracker, The Devil’s Bones, The Cougar’s Prey, The Badger’s Revenge, The Scorpion Trail, and The Rattlesnake Season. He won the WWA Spur award for Best Short Fiction in 2005 and for Best Paperback Original in 2013, and the 2011 and 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for the Josiah Wolfe series. He was nominated for a Derringer award in 2007, and was a finalist in the Best Books of Indiana literary competition in 2010, and won in 2011 for The Scorpion Trail. He has published over sixty nonfiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine; The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!; Boys’ Life; Hardboiled; Amazon Shorts, and several other publications and anthologies. He is member of ITW (International Thriller Writers), WWA (Western Writers of America), and WF (Western Fictioneers).
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