Shootout At Corpus Christi

If you thought Sunday mass was the loudest thing happening in Corpus Christi, think again. In Tom Calhoun’s Shootout at Corpus Christi (Jove, 2002), the Lone Star state delivers more gun smoke than a Fourth of July fireworks display in a dynamite factory. Saddle up for a tale where every handshake hides a grudge, every saloon has a secret, and every man knows that the fastest draw isn’t necessarily the safest bet. This is Texas frontier fiction the way pulp westerns were meant to be: dusty, dangerous, and drenched in drama. Calhoun paints Corpus Christi as a place where justice and revenge keep colliding like cattle in a stampede. Expect hired guns with itchy trigger fingers, lawmen who sleep with one eye open, and a town that finds itself at the centre of a showdown that will either end in peace… or in a pile of bullet casings.

Why this copy?

• Condition: Used. A little trail-worn, like a cowboy’s boots after a long ride. Pages intact, cover tough enough to survive a scuffle on the barroom floor.

• Jove 2002 edition. Mass-market paperback glory—cheap, cheerful, and designed to be read in a single sitting on a porch while the sun goes down.

• From Crappy Old Books. Sure, we sell Marxist tomes and medieval chronicles most days, but we’re not above holstering a western paperback for anyone in need of some quick-draw escapism.

Specs at a glance

• Author: Tom Calhoun

• Title: Shootout at Corpus Christi

• Publisher: Jove, 2002

• ISBN: 0515132942

• Condition: Used

This isn’t a slow ride through history; it’s a gallop straight into danger, where the only thing faster than a six-shooter is the reader turning pages. Grit, gunfire, and grit again—it’s the perfect pulp antidote to polite literature.

Warning: may cause spontaneous finger-gun duels in the living room, unsolicited “yee-haw!”s, and the uncontrollable urge to settle arguments by declaring, “Meet me at high noon.”

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