Guns of the Waste Land: Departure and Diversion by Leverett Butts, a literature teacher at the University of North Georgia who has been nominated for a Georgia Author of the Year Award for a previous collection of his short fiction, is an omnibus edition of the 1st & 2nd titles in his Guns of the Waste Land transformative saga transplanting and retelling the legend of King Arthur into the Wild West of 19th century Texas, free courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Venture imprint, who are e-printing it from what appears to be a 2013 self-published edition of the original novella via CreateSpace and what looks like a personal imprint "house" name, as this seems to be one of the newer authors they have picked up for their line.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK and pretty much everywhere else that Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Guns of the Waste Land is an epic retelling of Arthurian Legend in an American Western setting.
In late 1800s just outside the Texas town of Bretton, four men wander the American desert.
Percy Murratt seeks Sheriff Ardiss Drake to learn the fate of his late father. Meanwhile, Ardiss’ deputies, Gary Wayne Orkney and Boris Bennick, are in the pursuit of the outlaw Lancaster O'Loch flees, who has seduced and stolen Ardiss’ wife, Guernica.
Featuring a host of familiar characters reminiscent of Gawain, the Green Knight, Lancelot, Merlin and, of course, King Arthur, Guns of the Waste Land is a timeless adventure of chivalry, revenge and honour.
Now, in Book Two: Diversion, follow Percy and co. on their epic quest as they traverse the frontier of the American Waste Land, in pursuit of their own Holy Grail…