Thawed Out and Fed Up
By (Author) Ryan Brown
Simon & Schuster
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1st November 2011
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 23mm
322g
Sam Bonhambad husband, deadbeat dad, and possible criminal on the run from the lawwanders out of modern-day East Texas into an ersatz Wild West boomtown created for a movie that never happened. And when Sam strikes a blow against the gangsters whove been terrorizing the town, the locals look to him to save them. Hes no hero, but hes stumbled upon someone who is: John Wayne. But the John Wayne of this story is not the stalwart lawman of Hollywood filmshes a seventy-two-year-old man who had himself cryogenically frozen. Hes weak, bald, frailand unrecognizable to everyone but Sam.
In The Dukes defrosted state, hes not entirely himself. In fact, he believes hes actually Ethan Edwards, the character he played in The Searchers, one of Waynes most beloved films. Ethan or Duke or Marion Morrison, at his side Sam learns how to be a man, and a heroand a pretty good shot! As he takes on the Old West gang of thugs, he finds that he might have become a family man at last. But back in the real world, someone has his eye on Sams wife, and if Sam doesnt get back soon, the results could be devastating.
Ryan Brown is an actor who has starred on the daytime dramas Guiding Light and The Young and The Restless, and has appeared on Law & Order as well as in feature films for Lifetime Television.He is the author of two novels,Thawed Out & Fed Up and Play Dead.He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.