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Blue-Eyed Devil: Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch, Book 4
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Blue-Eyed Devil: Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch, Book 4

Written by Robert Parker

Narrated by Titus Welliver

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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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 with his eye on the governorship-and perhaps the presidency-he wants Cole and Hitch on his side. But they can't be bought, which upsets him mightily.

When Callico begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch. When Cole is forced to fire on the trigger-happy son of politically connected landowner General Horatio Laird, Callico sees his dream begin to crumble. The guns for hire are thorns in the side of the power-hungry chief, and he'll use any excuse to take them out. There will be a showdown-but who'll be left standing?

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Release dateMay 4, 2010
ISBN9780307735485
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Blue-Eyed Devil: Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch, Book 4
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Robert Parker

Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another entertaining installment in the Cole and Hitch series. The characters and dialogue raise this author's additions to the genre high above the average western. Recommended, but read them in order.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The last entry in Parker's Cole & Hitch series.*How I will miss new releases from this master story-teller! Not the least of his gifts is that he has never left his readers hanging. Surely he did not plan for Virgil and Everett's story to end here, but it's OK that it does. There are no questions unanswered, nothing to wonder about forever more. Once again our two men of honor have upheld their own peculiar code, saving a town, a comrade and themselves in the process. *Review written in 2010. As we know now, other authors picked up Parker's characters, including Cole and Hitch. In my opinion, what follows in this series does not do the originals justice.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is classic Parker: men living by clear, unwritten codes of violent nobility, straightforward confrontations, ambiguous female characters in the background, tight dialogue. Short, gripping, funny, and wonderful. As an aside, this is the first Parker audiobook I've tried and I fear it doesn't translate well. His choppy dialogue feels jarring read aloud.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Generally speaking, I enjoy the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch novels. The writing style is easy going. The books are short and are a breeze to read. More often than not, the plots are compelling as well. Those elements are all present in Blue-Eyed Devil. Cole and Hitch are back in Appaloosa but this time they find themselves on the opposite side of the law since the new chief of police is an amoral, power hungry man named Amos Calico. Although, they don’t specifically try to oppose him, it becomes clear as the novel progresses that they will ultimately wind up on opposite sides of the gun barrel.Although I generally liked this novel, there were some shortcomings. Allie continues to be a very unlikeable character. The bigger issue is that Cole and Hitch are almost like superheroes. They don’t have any actual super powers but they are so highly skilled with guns, that they achieve their goals with any real difficulty. In this case, the deck was stacked against them numbers wise, and they came up with a good plan, but they still prevailed without breaking much of a sweat. That’s the real downfall of these novels. I know how it’s going to end, and it’s never too difficult for them when it gets down to a gunfight, and it always ultimately does. If you like the series, you’ll like this novel, but there is a little something that’s lacking.Carl Alves – author of The Invocation
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Blue-Eyed Devil by Robert B. Parker is the 4th and last in his western series that features Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Having come full circle, Cole and Hitch find themselves back in the town of Appaloosa, not as lawmen this time but as saloon bouncers. Their little family includes the love of Virgil’s life, Allie and also Laurel, a young girl they rescued from Apaches. The local sheriff, Amos Callico, is an ambitious man and would rather see the back end of this duo as they are cutting into his payback money and his glory. This book reads less like a novel and more like an old time Western Serial. Comprised of over sixty two or three page chapters it is a very quick read, but by this time the reader knows these characters and how to fill in all the missing details. The author sets up the story, adds a little tension and ignites the action. Between attacking Apaches and dealing with a corrupt law force, this is an exciting story and an excellent conclusion to this extremely readable series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Robert B. Parker has created some great characters. His Spenser novels have many of them (with—IMHO—the exception of Susan Silverman). In Blue-Eyed Devil, he reprises two of his most enjoyable, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Virgil and Everett are pistoleros of the first order—well, maybe Everett can be otherwise classified because his weapon of choice is an eight-gauge shotgun. In a previous novel, Virgil and Everett were the sheriffs of Appaloosa (of some unnamed state that sounds like Arizona), but they got bored and left. Now they return to Appaloosa to find that a new man, Amos Callico, has become the chief law enforcement officer, and he has hired a phalanx of deputies. Callico has visions of getting elected to a high office, perhaps even President of the United States. But he is starting out slow, financing his operation primarily through extorting the local businessmen. Virgil and Everett don’t like Amos one bit, and you can bet that won’t be good for Amos in the end. Virgil and Everett bring justice to Appaloosa (as expected), but they have to fight off a band of raiding Apache warriors as well as Amos’s private army. They manage to do so with rarely uttering a sentence of more than 5 words. Parker’s writing, as in his Boston detective novels, is crisp and sassy. (Some might say, choppy and silly. But if you love old western comedy movies, you'll love these books too.)It’s hard to take more than two days to read a Parker novel. They are short, and they are page turners. This one is no exception. (JAB)
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
     Gives a fast read a bad name. Way too fast. If the book had been flushed out at all it would be worth a read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    OK, shoot me cuz I'm guilty of being a big Robert J Parker fan. However, I admit, your honor, that he may not be for everyone. His specialty is dialogue between tough characters and he has made a career out of it. This book is a western and consists mainly of conversations between two gun fighters. There is no hidden message, no deeper meaning. You will finish it quickly as dialogue creates lots of space on the page and the paper in the book is extra thick (which means its a short book). But I loved this one as I enjoy all of his books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Virgil Cole and Everett Hatch return to Appaloosa where they once served as the town's law enforcers.Currently, the town is run by Amos Callico, an ambitious, corrupt, chief of police, and his twelve lawmen. His method of dispensing justice is to demand kick-backs from businessmen in the town.Virgil and Everett are hired to provide personal security by Lamar Spec, at his saloon, The Boston House. Lamar doesn't want to pay Callico his fees.Callico approaches the two former lawmen and complains that they are taking money that belongs to him, then he asks if they would like to join him. When he is rebuffed, word spreads and soon the two former lawmen are providing honest security for all of the saloons in town.One day, their old friend, Pony Flores and his half brother, Kha-to-nay, arrive. Pony's half brother doesn't like white men because they took his and his people's land. He only speaks to other Indians so Pony has to speak for him.Pony tells them that his half brother killed a crooked Indian agent and robbed a bank. The government is after him for the first incident and the Pinkertons for the other.Parker is a master story teller. As I breezed through the pages, I kept thinking of Gary Cooper in "High Noon" and humming the theme song from the movie.Parker's visual descriptions and entertaining characters make the reader want the story to go on and on.I really enjoyed the book and felt that I was sitting at a ring-side seat as the action was unfolding before me.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I don't believe that I have ever read Robert B Parker, and after reading this book, I haven't missed anything. If I am not mistaken, this Virgil Cole/Everett Hitch series has been made into a least one movie. The action is slow, and the characters are trite. I finished the book in less thatn a day, and feel that time was wasted. A code of killing among gunfighters, and a sense of friendship, even when one is hired to kill the other. I felt like I had stepped into a slow motion picture, would not recommend this novel to anyone.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    fun read,sorry its the end.