{"product_id":"2940016104447","title":"Four Sixes to Beat: John Wesley Hardin in El Paso","description":"Based on the life of the West's most feared gunman, John Wesley Hardin, this novel trails the evil spawned by the son of a Methodist minister, named for the founder of Methodism, who was credited with no less than forty-two killings.  Eventually captured by Texas Rangers and convicted of murder, the book opens with Hardin having just completed sixteen years in Huntsville Penitentiary.  During his imprisonment his beloved wife Jane has died in poverty; his children have grown to adulthood in the homes of friends and relatives and are strangers.  He has pondered his guilt, embraced religion and studied the law.  Pardoned by the governor, he has settled in El Paso to take up a legal practice. Middle-aged and repentant, he longs to live out his remaining years as a model citizen.  He decides to write a confessional autobiography.  The act summons up not contrition but the thrills of his bloody past and his old longing for notoriety and justification of evil.  He allows himself to be drawn into a plot with corrupt lawmen Jeff Milton and George Scarborough to collect a reward for a client, fugitive Martin Mroz, whose wife Beulah is Hardin's degraded mistress.  The plot ends in murder and incurs the wrath of the feral El Paso constable Uncle John Selman, whose long-held reputation for ferocity Hardin's has eclipsed.  The stage is set for a fatal showdown.","brand":"Charles F. Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47066854818032,"sku":"2940016104447","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016104447_p0.jpg?v=1763628724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016104447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}