Re: [DL] Weird West fiction suggestion

[Dan Davenport <danield@flash.net>]

I have another suggestion: _The Six Messiahs_, by Mark Frost. You'd have
to read _The List of 7_ first, which takes place entirely in Europe, but
that's okay -- it's the superior of the two, IMHO.

As far as _Messiahs_ goes, you have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Jack Sparks,
a swashbuckling, gadget-using spy who is the inspiration for Sherlock
Holmes (in the story context, anyway); a Western badass who rode with
Wyatt Earp; a British actress; a beautiful Indian shaman (I forget which
tribe); a Shinto priest/swordsman; and an evil preacher with a Satanic
plot, all converging in the Old West. Oh, and...

SPOILER!!!

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..Sparks is "back from the dead" (figuratively speaking) and has a
shockingly different personality from that he displayed in the first
book. Turns out he has what amounts to a demon inside him that the
shaman must exorcise. Hmmm...

Now, is that Deadlands or what? :)

Dan Davenport

-- 
"Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing
mental disturbance." -- Jack Sparks (to Arthur Conan Doyle), _The List
of 7_