Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Brimstone
    Unavailable
    Brimstone
    Unavailable
    Brimstone
    Audiobook5 hours

    Brimstone

    Written by Robert B. Parker

    Narrated by Titus Welliver

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    When we last saw Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, they had just restored peace to the rough-and-tumble town of Resolution. Virgil, however, has only one thing on his mind these days: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her--with Everett's help.
    Moving from town to town, the pair finally find Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they relocate to the up-and-coming town of Brimstone, but things are not the same between Virgil and Allie. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the town's church and its sanctimonious priest, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, Virgil and Everett struggle to keep the peace.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 5, 2009
    ISBN9780739382967
    Unavailable
    Brimstone
    Author

    Robert B. Parker

    Robert B Parker was the best-selling author of over 60 books, including Small Vices, Sudden Mischief, Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, Potshot, Widows Walk, Night Passage, Trouble in Paradise, Death in Paradise, Family Honor, Perish Twice, Shrink Rap, Stone Cold, Melancholy Baby, Back Story, Double Play, Bad Business, Cold Service, Sea Change, School Days and Blue Screen. He died in 2010 at the age of 77.

    More audiobooks from Robert B. Parker

    Related to Brimstone

    Related audiobooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Creative Escape

      May 29, 2022

      GOODNIGHT, VIVIENNE, GOODNIGHT, by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate, $34.99) Australian author Steven Carroll has turned his fascination with the poet TS Eliot into a rich and productive creative enterprise. In 2009, he wrote The Lost Life, a fictional

      2 min read

    • Article

      Midnight’s Twins

      Jun 17, 2020

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Holly Race Publisher Hot Key Books At times this debut novel bursts with creativity: fitting, as much of it takes place in a world built from the imaginations of people who are asleep and dreaming.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Bad Blood

      Mar 21, 2024

      Bad Blood
      5 min read

    • Article

      Fabulous Fiction

      Mar 13, 2020

      Fabulous Fiction
      3 min read

    • Article

      Gripping Reads

      Jan 20, 2023

      BY JEFFREY ARCHER HarperCollins London, 1988: Britain is in love with the “people’s princess”. As a prominent member of the most famous family on earth, she’s protected by the elite Royalty Protection Command and it’s their job to keep watch over he

      3 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Jan 5, 2021

      In her second novel, Franklin revisits the Forest of Dean, where we meet Jo and Tessa. Jo has returned to the place where she grew up, in order to save the family’s butchery business; farrier Tessa has returned, too, but with a secret, complex past.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Film

      Nov 1, 2018

      Film
      2 min read

    • Article

      DEAD WOMAN walking

      May 24, 2020

      DEAD WOMAN walking
      2 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of A FAMILY LEGEND

      Oct 8, 2021

      In Search Of A FAMILY LEGEND
      10 min read

    • Article

      Unbridled Passion

      Mar 15, 2022

      “REAL PASSION—I’ve only seen it that once,” Laurence Olivier’s first wife Jill Esmond told their son Tarquin. “If you are ever hit by it, God help you.” The passion she referred to was the one that destroyed her marriage. In 1937, Olivier left her an

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Welcome Return To The Seedier Side Of Glasgow In The Company Of A Much-loved Character

      Jan 17, 2022

      Most people think crime fiction is driven by plot rather than character. But my experience of writing in the genre for the last decade and a half suggests the opposite – it’s the books with the strongest characters that live longest in readers’ heart

      2 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Lee, Tsumura, McCadden, and More

      Mar 23, 2021

      This week brings new titles from Andrea Lee, Kikuko Tsumura, and Alice Zeniter. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Lee, Tsumura, McCadden, and More appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Novel Charts The Friendships Of Women

      Jul 3, 2019

      In ‘City of Girls,’ young protagonist Vivian’s indiscretions become steppingstones to self-realization.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jul 1, 2023

      I’m looking at a photograph of a bearded Romaine Tenney on his hay mowerhitched to draft horses in a half-cut field. Tenney, whose Vermont farm was slatedto be swallowed by Interstate 91, immolated himself, rather than be forciblymoved. My son says,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Holy Hit list

      Mar 21, 2024

      Holy Hit list
      3 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reading

      Dec 29, 2021

      Summer Reading
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Question of CONSENT

      Nov 8, 2020

      A Question of CONSENT
      2 min read

    • Article

      Great Reads

      Oct 6, 2022

      Growing up in 1973, Eleanor's home was strained by sorrow and the echoes of war that silenced her parents. And always her mother, Kitty's, bitterness, twisting and poisoning everything she touched. She thought she knew what made her parents this way…

      2 min read

    • Article

      Tough Love

      Oct 30, 2023

      by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin, $36.99) Let’s get right down to it: The In-Between, by Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas, includes some really intense descriptions of rough male-on-male sex. That shouldn’t be a surprise. As a prominent gay wr

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sounds Of Silence

      Mar 27, 2022

      Sounds Of Silence
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Invisible Woman George Orwell’s First Wife Has Been Ill-served By His Own Biographers, Yet Here The Witty And Fierce Eileen Is Stripped Of Agency All Over Again

      Aug 18, 2023

      The Invisible Woman George Orwell’s First Wife Has Been Ill-served By His Own Biographers, Yet Here The Witty And Fierce Eileen Is Stripped Of Agency All Over Again
      3 min read

    • Article

      'Empire Of Wild' Tells A Small Story — But Not A Slight One

      Jul 29, 2020

      Cherie Dimaline's new novel seems small in scope — it's about a woman who loses her husband and is determined to bring him back, nothing more than that — but it's rich, tightly written and powerful.

      4 min read

    Reviews for Brimstone

    4/5

    151 ratings9 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Another good tale told by an author who I have added to my favorites' list. Parker manages to paint his pictures and flesh out his plot with very brief descriptions and terse dialogue, and I intend to continue to read his works. Recommended, but first read the prior two books in the series.
    • 4/5
      This third book in Parker's western series disappointed me a little in regards to the plot. It just suffers some in comparison to Appaloosa and is similar in that regard to the second book, Resolution. I think, however, if I was reading this as a standalone for the first introduction to the series you can ignore that comment. It didn't bother me that Cole was searching for and found his lost love Allie French - who should have been left to her fate as far as I was concerned - what bothered me was his re-entanglement and this (of course!) leads to a retread of the Resolution plot with a different cast of characters. I would have been much happier with a rescue and resettlement so to speak, and then move on to something new. Still, I certainly enjoy my time spent with Cole and Hitch. And, to be fair, this is not entirely a retread - religion is brought into this novel. Things get a little gritty in this one.Narrated once more from Everett Hitch's point of view, the spare dialogue still manages to sparkle here and there and bring a smile to your face. And, on the plus side, these are quick and easy reads, which sometimes is exactly what one wants. I'll confess to liking the very end of this story a whole lot. I suppose I will be reading the next book in this series before too long.
    • 3/5
      Had a Louis Lamour feel too it. Definitely not Spenser
    • 4/5
      Audiobook: I listen to a lot of audiobooks in the summer while mowing the lawn which takes about 4-5 hours and given the substantial rain we have had this summer, it’s at least once a week. It’s nice to have something entertaining while negotiating trees and hills. This series has been wonderfully engaging. Third in the series featuring Cole and Hitch. They have found Allie, Virgil’s former lover who had run away following the abortive affair in Appaloosa. She was in Brimstone working as a whore. They rescue her from the situation and Virgil and Hitch take jobs in Brimstone as deputy sheriffs while Virgil and Allie try to get back on track. She has found religion under the suspect tutelage of Parnell who seems to be in league with Pike, a local saloon owner who is being tracked by a large Indian. Virgil and Hitch have their hands full. The series has been continued following Parker’s death by Robert Knott. I am reluctant to try them as I suspect capturing Parker’s unique style in this western series will be very difficult. The audio version, read by Rex Linn, which I sampled, doesn’t come close to Titus Welliver’s narration in the three original works by Parker. The narrator is very important in any audiobook and Welliver does a wonderful job with Parker’s unique cadence that’s so apparent in both the western and Jesse Stone series. If you like Jesse Stone, I’m sure you’ll like Cole and Hitch.
    • 3/5
      In the third novel in the series featuring Virgil Cole and his sidekick Everett Hitch, Virgil is looking for his former ladyfriend Allie French, even though she had betrayed him previously. They wind up in the town of Brimstone, where Allie is working as a prostitute. Virgil and Everett work as deputies in the town, and naturally trouble begins to brew. Front and center is Brother Percival, who comes to town preaching fire and brimstone, and tries to shut down all of the saloons and places of ill repute. Pike, who owns the biggest saloon in town and has designs on running the town, is on the other side. Everett and Virgil sit in the middle.This novel was short and quick-paced with few wasted words. I appreciate Parker’s brevity. I also enjoy the characters. Virgil and Everett are easy-going and easy to like. My biggest problem with this novel is that everything comes too easily for Virgil and Everett. They set out to do something and accomplish it. There is never any point where they are in danger. The outcome is never in doubt. All of this creates a lack of tension. I knew exactly what would happen at the beginning of every scene, because it always goes as they plan it. There are never complications or major obstacles they have to overcome. In the end, this was a fun read but not overly engrossing.Carl Alves – author of Two For Eternity
    • 4/5
      I am still enjoying my visits with Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch in Robert Parker’s western series. Brimstone is the third book and it maintains the fun, excitement and entertainment level of this series. . The relationship between the two main characters, their conversations and the unquestioning loyalty that lies between them makes these books some of the best “buddy” stories I have ever read.The plot is pretty typical of these stories, the two lawmen come in and clean up a town, in this case a saloon owner and a fanatical preacher are going head to head. Virgil has managed to track down his wayward wife, Allie but it remains to be seen if she really has changed and will be able to settle into married life. I am looking forward to the next book already!
    • 4/5
      Two Texas lawmen, search for the woman who has won one of their hearts.The lawmen are reminiscent of Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae of "Lonesome Dove," as they eventually find the woman working as a whore in a run down bar in southern Texas.The men rescue the woman and go to Brimstone where they learn that the sheriff needs help. The town is growing with the railroad and cattle business and the sheriff has a number of towns to look after.He appoints Virgil and Everett deputies and they observe the conflict between a major bar owner in the town and a preacher who preaches militant Christianity.It's interesting to watch as a confrontation develops.I enjoyed the story and felt that the characters were realistically portrayed.
    • 4/5
      Although they don't mention their hats much, both Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch qualify to wear white ones. In this outing, they are mostly in the business of saving not-so-fair maidens from fates worse than death, keeping the peace in the saloon town of Brimstone, and trying to process the first situation either of them can recall in which neither of them quite knows what Virgil is going to do. Quintessential Parker.
    • 5/5
      What a great read! This was an actual 'you can't put it down' book as I polished it off in less than a day. Great follow-up to Appaloosa and I'm thinking there will be another. At least I hope so; fine characters, dialogue, etc. Yes, it's an edgy, semi-predictable Western in the flavor of Lonesome Dove, but that can't be that bad can it?