Shavetail

Thomas Cobb¿s second novel is a ¿thoughtful Western¿ (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona¿s Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and a woman kidnapped by renegade Apaches, the men¿s mettle is severely tested as they confront the brutality of life in the West.