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    The Man Who Killed Texas Jones
    The Man Who Killed Texas Jones
    The Man Who Killed Texas Jones
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    The Man Who Killed Texas Jones

    By Fabio Novel

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    THE MAN WHO KILLED TEXAS JONES (a short story)

    A slipknot dangles from a solitary tree, in a wrong place. A warning? A promise?

    It is a fair question for a gang of outlaws, coming straight from a bloodstained robbery. Their leader, the infamous Texas Jones, has the answer: he was the one who built such sinister gallows.

    Why? The explanation will taste of lead and blood, in a face-off that will also – and, perhaps, above all – be with the past.

    “The Man Who Killed Texas Jones” tells a story of the frontier with the noir’s raspy and embittered voice. A vibrant and punctual homage to the western genre.

    THE AUTHOR

    As a writer, Fabio Novel (Trieste, 1966) loves confronting himself with a plurality of literary genres. His debut on the Italian market was with the novel “Scatole siamesi” (Nord 2002, Delos Books 2010), a spy/SF thriller set in a future South East Asia.

    He has published a number of short stories for several Italian publishers. Among his books available in the ebook format: the thrillers “Sangue Khmer”, “Phuket Inferno” and “Fiori per Diana”, and the fantasy “Magda”, “Il raccolto” and “La Casa dei Sogni e delle Speranze”.

    He has also produced essays for magazines, books and other publications. He collaborates with Italian webzines such as www.thrillermagazine.it, www.fantasymagazine.it and www.fantascienza.com.

    For Mondadori, the leading Italian publisher, he has edited two special issues of the Segretissimo series: the VV.AA. spy fiction anthologies “Legion” (2008) e “Noi siamo Legione” (2015).

    “The Man Who Killed Texas Jones” is his first ebook translated into English.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFabio Novel
    Release dateJan 20, 2016
    ISBN9788892547520
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      The Man Who Killed Texas Jones - Fabio Novel

      Colophon

      Series: fabio novel / e-nternational - 1

      Genre: western noir

      Type: short story

      The man who killed Texas Jones

      Copyright © 2016 Fabio Novel

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      First edition (Italian): L’uomo che uccise Texas Jones, Milano Nera, 2012

      Second edition (Italian): L’uomo che uccise Texas Jones, StreetLib, 2016

      Cover illustration: copyright © Silvia Marinelli

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to express my deep gratitude to the publisher MilanoNera and particularly to the great illustrator Silvia Marinelli for granting free use of the image of the first Italian edition of this short story (L’uomo che uccise Texas Jones, Milano Nera, 2012), here adapted for this self published English edition.

      Silvia Marinelli on LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/in/marinellisilvia

      Silvia Marinelli’s website: www.silviamarinelli.tumblr.com

      Silvia Marinelli on FaceBook: www.facebook.com/silviamarinelli.illustrazioni

      My heartfelt thanks go also to Paolo Cecchetto, English teacher and translator of proven experience, for the strong and friendly support given to revising the translation of this short story. It is understood that possible mistakes or inadequate choices still present in the text are my sole responsibility.

      And my thanks also to Marco Straforini, first reader of this English version, and to Margaret Lucey, for her precious suggestions about the American English.

      Fabio Novel

      Trieste, April 2016

      The man who killed Texas Jones

      That’s a lovely slipknot.

      It’s thanks to a good rope, too. Top notch stuff, like you find only in the Southwest. Heavy-duty rope, you can use it to catch cattle and wild horses with your lazo, no nasty surprises. In case, you can also use it to make justice.

      But a rope, good as it may be, is not everything. The knot. That’s what makes the difference.

      I keep staring at the noose, pleased with myself. To be on the safe side, I checked it a couple of times, before and after tying

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