I’m very happy to announce that my acclaimed western novel COYOTE’S PEOPLE, previously only available as a hardback and in hardback large print, published by Five Star Publishing, is now also available as an e.book. The kindle version has been published by Andride Press in April 2022.
The book is set in the Apache
Wars in Arizona in the 1870s. Its centre is the love affair between a
17-year-old white boy and an Apache girl as savage war rages around them.
The cover photograph, DESERT SUNSET IN TUCSON ARIZONA, is by YUKO U. SMITH. The cover design is by RICHARD HEARN.
Here’s the TAG LINE and BLURB describing the novel:
TAG LINE:
The Apache chief seeking peace in a time of war... and the 17-year-old white boy caught in the middle.
BLURB:
‘Arizona Territory, the 1870s. Savage war rages between the white man and the Apache. And three people are caught in the middle: COYOTE, an Apache chief seeking peace, trying to find a refuge for his small band of wanderers; LIEUTENANT AUSTIN HAMILTON, commander of remote Camp Walsh, a man sympathetic to the Indians' plight; and CALVIN TAYLOR (nicknamed CHOCTAW), a 17-year-old white boy. Choctaw has been taught to hate Apaches, something reinforced by his own bloody experiences. But his loyalties are torn when he unexpectedly falls in love with an Apache girl. Each finds himself at the center of this bitter conflict, enmeshed in treachery and violence, with their own lives, and the peace they're striving for, threatened by enemies on all sides…’
REVIEWS:
COYOTE’S PEOPLE has been piling up reviews on Amazon, Barnes and Noble
and Goodreads – ALL FIVE STAR! This includes reviews from some of the most successful and
acclaimed western authors in the business, such as ROBERT VAUGHAN, LUCIA ROBSON
and PETER BRANDVOLD. I’m flattered and humbled that my novel has
been getting such a positive response.
Here’s a
quick sample:
LUCIA ROBSON: (Winner of the Owen Wister and Spur awards and ‘New York Times’ best-selling author)
‘An outstanding novel!’
ROBERT
VAUGHAN: (Winner
of the Spur Award and Pulitzer-Prize nominated author)
‘McBride’s wonderful book’
KATHLEEN
MORRIS: (Winner
of the 2020 Peacemaker Award for best first Western novel)
'McBride does a masterful job of... illustrating
that justice and truth make uneasy bedfellows with blind hatred, blood lust and
revenge...Very well done.'
RICHARD PROSCH: (Winner of the Spur Award)
'Five stars. Highly recommended!'
WAYNE D. DUNDEE: (Peacemaker Award-winning novelist)
‘Western fiction at its best!’
W. MICHAEL FARMER: (Winner of Will Rogers Medallion
Awards, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and Best New Mexico Book Award)
'Coyote’s People is a page-turner, entertaining and
insightful, filled with the truth only fiction can provide.'
PETER BRANDVOLD: (Acclaimed and best-selling western author, winner of The Peacemaker Lifetime Achievement Award)
‘Tough, Gritty glimpse into Apacheria... I give this book and its writer, Andrew McBride, my highest recommendation!'
OTHER REVIEWERS:
‘A
stunning book… We're clearly in the hands of a master… I would go so far
as to say that if Andrew had written this book fifty or sixty years ago in the
heyday of western fiction it would be an acknowledged classic. And hopefully,
if there's any justice in the world, it will still achieve that status.'
‘A breath-taking, page-turning, wrenchingly heart-breaking tale.’
‘Andrew
McBride has crafted another gripping saga in his continuing series on the
adventures of Calvin "Choctaw" Taylor.’
'A superb western adventure'
'A thrilling, atmospheric, action-filled story'
This is the cover of the hardback
and large print editions of COYOTE’S
PEOPLE published by Five Star Publishing, cover design by KATHY HEMING:
Here’s a blog about COYOTE’S PEOPLE where you can read THE FIRST CHAPTER: https://andrewmcbrideauthor.blogspot.com/2019/12/coyotes-people-by-andrew-mcbride.html
If you enjoy COYOTE’S PEOPLE you may also enjoy the sequel THE PEACEMAKER which begins a few days after COYOTE’S PEOPLE ends. This
describes a perilous mission to end the war between the white man and the
Chiricahua Apaches under their great chief, COCHISE.
This has also gained critical
acclaim.
I’ve received 30+ reviews of THE PEACEMAKER on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk. and Goodreads. They’re all positive – a few 4 star, but the overwhelming majority 5 star, again including reviews from successful and acclaimed western authors, such as ROBERT VAUGHAN, RALPH COTTON and PETER BRANDVOLD. Here’s brief sample:
ROBERT VAUGHAN: ‘A great book’.
RALPH COTTON (A Pulitzer-prize
nominated novelist): ‘For pure
writing style, McBride’s gritty prose nails the time and place of his story
with bold authority. …this relatively new author has thoroughly, and rightly
so, claimed his place among the top Old West storytellers.’
PETER BRANDVOLD (Please note, THE
PEACEMAKER award Peter won is a different ‘peacemaker’ than my book!):
‘Excellent, riveting western.’
