Thawed Out and Fed Up
, by Brown, RyanNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781439171561 | 1439171564
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/4/2011
Sam Bonhambad husband, deadbeat dad, and possible criminal on the run from the lawwanders out of modern-day East Texas into an ersatz Wild West boomtown created for a movie that never happened. #xA0;And when Sam strikes a blow against the gangsters who#x19;ve been terrorizing the town, the locals look to him to save them. He#x19;s no hero, but he#x19;s stumbled upon someone who is: John Wayne. But the John Wayne of this story is not the stalwart lawman of Hollywood filmshe#x19;s a seventy-two-year-old man who had himself cryogenically frozen.#xA0; He#x19;s weak, bald, frail&and unrecognizable to everyone but Sam. In The Duke#x19;s #x1C;defrosted#x1D; state, he#x19;s not entirely himself.#xA0; In fact, he believes he#x19;s actually Ethan Edwards, the character he played in The Searchers, one of Wayne#x19;s most beloved films. Ethan or Duke or Marion Morrison, at his side Sam learns how to be a man, and a heroand a pretty good shot! As he takes on the Old West gang of thugs, he finds that he might have become a family man at last. But back in the real world, someone has his eye on Sam#x19;s wife, and if Sam doesn#x19;t get back soon, the results could be devastating.