Kenneth Mark Hoover

John T. Marwood is a man only a name change away from classic “man with no name” status. The new marshal of the town of Haxan, New Mexico, Marwood is a taciturn gunslinger with a past as murky as a dust storm. Tasked with keeping the peace, Marwood soon discovers the town is as brutal a place as any he has encountered. Throughout the pages, Hoover dollops out hints on Marwood’s shady past (hints I hope to be resolved in future entries in the series), but he takes great pains to keep his anti-hero as dark a soul as his enemies. There are also the inklings of a supernatural mysticism that heightens Marwood’s every decision. Haxan is not a genteel examination of the West; it’s a mean, vicious, bloody, profane look at hard people living hard times. Not for nothing has it been described as “Lonesome Dove meets The Punisher.” But goddamn is it a good read.

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