{"product_id":"2940170448999","title":"This Violent Land: A Smoke Jensen Novel of the West","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful new novel, William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone chronicle Smoke Jensen's early years, long before he became a legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirby - later Smoke - Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy US marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of Las Animas. There he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the outlaw leader Cole Dawson, whose six-gun has left a lot of good men dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Smoke feels no such fear. He takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. It turns out Dawson is only a cog in a crooked plot hatched by someone hiding behind the law. For a young deputy marshal, going up against the powerful and corrupt is almost certainly a fool's mission, but doing nothing is not a choice. When Smoke strikes, he's in all the bloody way, and what follows will become the stuff of legend. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraving bullets, blood, and treachery to face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado Territory, Smoke will earn a reputation for justice and the rule of law in a wild, violent frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161423233264,"sku":"2940170448999","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170448999_p0.jpg?v=1763710043","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170448999","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}