The Quest of Brady Kenton

By Cameron Judd

Book Overview

Western reporter Brady Kenton has made his living with the power of his pen--capturing the conflict and the courage of the American frontier. But there's one story that has always eluded Kenton: the truth behind his wife's purported death in a fiery train crash. Victoria Kenton's body was never found. Now, a nervous young Englishwoman has shown up in Leadville, telling Kenton's sidekick, Alex Gunnison, that she is the reporter's long-lost daughter--and that she knows Victoria's fate. But before Gunnison can bring the girl to Kenton, a Texas manhunter warns him, calling the woman an insane killer who is spreading lies across the frontier. In a land where fact is stranger than fiction, Brady Kenton is going to have to take a chance. He is sure that the truth is close at had. And so is a killer--or two...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312975783
• ISBN13: 9780312975784
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Cleverly crafted mystery

Brady Kenton is driven to drink and distraction from his journalistic work when he is made aware of a serialised novel perhaps providing clues that his wife Victoria didn't die as was previously supposed in a train accident some 20 or 30 years previously. Using clear and precise writing Cameron Judd soon captures interest in Kenton's search for the truth by unleashing a steady stream of threads that kept me wanting to run with each and everyone of them. Often when a thread was concluded another one or two would spring up and I found myself well engrossed. Primarily based in Leadville and Denver in the late 19th Century, Judd used conversation and thought assessments of the principals with the odd bout of action rather than littering his work with period detail. You will not find many of the usual western themes explored here but this is a great mystery where for Kenton family became vastly more important than career and reputation.