Bodacious Creed: A Steampunk Zombie Western by Jonathan Fesmire
Our virtual steampunk book club returns in April with the bold, adventure story “Bodacious Creed” by Jonathan Fesmire. Join us for lively discussion of this steampunk novel and bring questions for the author who will be our special guest during the meeting.
We host book club on zoom each session and it is free to attend. The link will get posted to the event page two hours before start time. For those who prefer, we also live stream to Facebook.
As always we encourage you to support your local library or independent book seller when procuring this novel.
Goodreads blurb:
U.S. Marshal James Creed has known loss, starting from the untimely death of his wife and daughter in a sudden fire. His work, chasing down and arresting outlaws across the Wild West, is all he has left to live for. Then one day, in 1876, the infamous killer Corwin Blake catches Creed by surprise and guns him down.
Creed awakes after a mysterious young woman resurrects him in a basement laboratory beneath a brothel. Half alive, Creed feels torn between his need for justice and his desire to fall back into the peace of death. Creed’s instincts drive him to protect the city of Santa Cruz, California, from the outlaws it harbors while searching for Blake.
He uncovers a secret criminal organization, likely protecting Blake, determined to use resurrection technology for its own ends. The former marshal, now faster, stronger, and a more deadly shot than ever before, must work with a brothel madam, a bounty hunter, and the remaining marshals to uncover the criminal syndicate before they can misuse the machines of rebirth and create more mindless zombies. Meanwhile, he must also stop Blake, before the outlaw kills the only people he cares about.
His own death can wait.
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