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The long-awaited sequel to Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award-winning Galloway's Gamble is here!

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Galloway's Gamble 2: 

Lucifer & the Great Baltimore Brawl 

 

After their friends are swindled out of a champion racehorse by devious rival Cortland Van Brunt III in a fog-shrouded San Francisco sprint, endearingly argumentative poker-playing brothers Jamey and Jake Galloway lead the gang on a snakebit transcontinental quest: Can they reach Baltimore in time for a desperate long-shot bid to win back prized stallion Phoenix in a grudge-match race at Pimlico?

Praise for Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Winner Galloway's Gamble

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"Anyone who loves Charles Portis's style of writing in True Grit, or readers ready [for] a great yarn well told, look no farther than Galloway's Gamble"

- Jeb Rosebrook, True West Magazine 

"Galloway's Gamble by Howard Weinstein is the whole package — entertaining, heartwarming, and historically accurate. If you haven't read a Weinstein novel before, be prepared to have a new favorite author. "

- Jeff Guinn, author of the New York Times bestseller The Last Gunfight

"Weinstein’s story moves fast . . . and the final complicated gamble will please any reader who roots for the little guy. "

- Historical Novel Society

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Gambling brothers Jamey and Jake Galloway ride trails, rails, and riverboats on a rollicking odyssey through the Old West, seeking their fortune at poker tables from New Orleans to 'Frisco. While  Jamey prefers being a live coward to a dead hero, brash big brother Jake rarely backs down from a fight.  When their Texas hometown is threatened by land-grabbing cattle king Wilhelm Krieg and shady banker Silas Atwood, Jamey and Jake face long odds in the most desperate gamble of their lives: Can they cook up a scheme to outfox dirty-dealing scoundrels and save Serenity Falls from ruin — without getting themselves killed?

   

Inspired by high-spirited classics like Maverick, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Silverado, and The Sting Galloway’s Gamble is a timeless tale about the never-ending David vs. Goliath battle against greed and corruption, as relevant today as it was in 1873!
 

News . . .

 

Galloway's Gamble 2: Lucifer & the Great Baltimore Brawl is now available in trade paperback and eBook editions from Silverado Press at Amazon.com. 

 

Contact me to buy autographed copies.

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Check out my recent interviews on the Enterprise Incidents podcast and Dusty Saddle Publishing's Voices of the West YouTube channel.

Blog: Between the Lines

Latest entry - Tracking down the truth: I found a great quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln, and wanted to use it in Galloway's Gamble 2. But is it historically accurate -- or too good to be true?  

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