Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: brothers, fiction, gold miners, frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), gold mines and mining, western fiction, humorous fiction, historical fiction
Editions
deWitt, Patrick
Ecco (2011)
Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
Schools: 1
deWitt, Patrick
Brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters are ordered by a man known only as the Commodore to kill Hermann Kermit Warm and travel from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside of Sacramento to do the job, but along the way Eli begins to doubt his choice in profession.
Schools: 0