Appaloosa
A Cole and Hitch Novel: Book #1
- By: Robert B. Parker
- Narrated by: Titus Welliver
- Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Description
A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers.
It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast . . .
When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s.
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions.
This is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best.
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A Cole and Hitch Novel Series

Appaloosa
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Titus Welliver
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers.
It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast... Read more »

Resolution
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Titus Welliver
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times—bestselling author’s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.
I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon... Read more »

Brimstone
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Titus Welliver
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
When we last saw Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, they had just restored peace to the rough-and-tumble town of Resolution. Virgil, however, has only one thing on his mind these days: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her--with Everett's help.
Moving... Read more »

Blue-Eyed Devil
By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Titus Welliver
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk.
The new chief is Amos Callico, a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man... Read more »

Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse
By: Robert Knott & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Titus Welliver
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort... Read more »
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Robert B. Parker's Bull River
By: Robert Knott & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Rex Linn
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in the saddle with guns blazing in this gritty, intense addition to the New York Times–bestselling series.
After hunting down murderer and bandito Captain Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to Citadel to stand trial. No sooner do they... Read more »

Robert B. Parker's The Bridge
By: Robert Knott & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Rex Linn
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The next gritty, gun-slinging entry in the New York Times–bestselling series, featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa, where their work enforcing the law has been exceptionally quiet. All that is about to change. An ominous storm rolls in, and along with it... Read more »

Robert B. Parker's Blackjack
By: Robert Knott & Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Rex Linn
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in the gritty new installment of the New York Times–bestselling series.
Appaloosa, the hometown of Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, continues to prosper, but with prosperity comes a slew of new trouble: carpetbaggers, gamblers, migrants, peddlers, drifters, thieves, and... Read more »

Robert B. Parker's Revelation
By: Robert Knott
Narrated by: Rex Linn
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return to confront an escaped criminal in the grittiest entry yet in Robert B. Parker’s New York Times bestselling series.
Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black’s murder charge was dropped. But all that changed... Read more »

Robert B. Parker's Buckskin
By: Robert Knott
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must prevent all-out war between rival factions in the latest adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series.
When gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of Appaloosa, it sets off a fight between two shrewd local business operations as their hired gun hands square off over the claim. First a... Read more »