Publisher's Synopsis
Shortlisted for the 2013 American Gems Literary Festival.
A sketch artist who draws enemies everywhere he goes raises hell for a reluctant travel companion. Abe Brown searching Texas for family he was separated from during slavery, makes a deal with a super-quick artist for a share in a prize to help him get to Washington D.C. where he is wanted to design the 1876 silver dollar. But a straightforward journey becomes a peril-filled adventure when Abe finds he has made a deal with the travel companion from hell. Reminiscent of Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Fastest Draw begins in Depression era Georgia with an old Abe recounting his adventure to a writer. Both a Tall-tale Western and a Southern Gothic the screenplay for Fastest Draw was recommended for the shortlist of the Dublin International film festival. "A joy to read, funny, original, vivid in its character, story and its sense of place and time." DIFF
