HOMBRE AD THREE TEN TO YUMA

A remote stage-coach station is closing down and a small group of travellers are thrown together on the last wagon out: the mysterious Doctor Favor and his wife, a traumatised girl, a brutal stranger called Braden, the station manager, the sharp-eyed young narrator and John Russell, known simply as Hombre. The reader can be quietly confident that some of these travellers will not be reaching their destination alive.This superb Western, published in , was one of the novels that made Elmore Leonards reputation as someone who had single-handedly revived the genre. It was made into a film starring Paul Newman.Also included is Leonards celebrated short story Three-Ten to Yuma.