Author: Patrick deWitt

I remember this book when it first came out and was winning all sorts of prizes. That isn’t why I borrowed it from the library though. I heard or read that it was coming to Netflix and I wanted to be aware of the story before watching it.

The Sisters brothers, Charlie and Eli, are paid assassins for The Commodore. The setting for the story is 1851 when the brothers are on a job that takes them from Oregon City to California. They are ruthless and almost everyone they meet is gunned down; it is, after all, the wild west. But the story is told in a very humorous way (it won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour) and you can almost ignore the small bits of violence.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *