Coffin Gap

by Les Savage Jr.

Book Overview

A young doctor returns to Coffin Gap and finds himself trying to hold off a typhoid epidemic while doing battle with his former best friend and the owner of a silver mine. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843946326
• ISBN13: 9780843946321
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A great story that is finally in print again...

This is the story of a young man whose father gets killed out on his own range, sells off the land and stock, then goes off to be a doctor. He watches his own father die and this is his inspiration to become a doctor. When he comes back to Coffin Gap, however, things have changed. He soon finds out that there is a lot more to Coffin Gap that he ever imagined. He finds out the truth about who killed his dad, he tries to remain neutral in his treatments between the ranchers and the hydraulic miners, and finds his long ago love. He vainly tries to put in a hospital, fights off a typhoid epidemic, and in the meantime, almost gets ambushed twice. Less Savage, Jr. takes on a big topic for 1949, however, because he bravely deals with biological contamintation issues and the editors who did not like it. Also, however, he finds love, an old love, from when he first left, and comes back to find that she is married. Overall, a great story, but one I wish were longer and more developed in regards to Craig and Nola. There just isn't much there except to wonder. One thing I will say, however, is that now I want to read more Less Savage, Jr. stories. He does a fine job of making the story believable and it had a good flow to the plot.