Book - BookDetective

Name: Sanctuary

Author: Gary Svee
Year: 1990
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Award winners

Purchase/reserch links:

ISBNs:
9780743463508
0743463501

Winner of the 1990 Spur Award for Best Western Novel: An unlikely hero arrives in a hard town'can the wandering preacher bring justice to Sanctuary? A hungry Indian boy waits by the train tracks, hopping back and forth to keep warm, praying that someone passing through the forgotten town of Sanctuary will throw him a scrap of food. A preacher gets off the train, thin and tan, and tells the boy to follow him. The preacher gives the child money and a meal, then sends him on his way. This is the first life Mordecai will save in Sanctuary. It will not be the last. A hardscrabble town far from civilization, Sanctuary is lorded over by a hypocritical reverend and a cruel rancher. They see no threat in the preacher, but they underestimate him. A religious man hardened by life on the frontier, Mordecai is not afraid to thrash a sinner with his belt. He will remake this town in God's image, or leave Sanctuary to burn.