Former Duluthian Miles Spangrud releases debut novel

My friend and former Duluthian Miles Spangrud will see their debut novel released by Two Gun Publishing. Flesh and Bone: A Historical Western is interesting to me because Western feels like one of those genres that keeps happening no matter how far outside the field of my vision it is. Like Art Bell, maybe. Always there, and I only stumble into it once in a while, this time because the author was local.

According to Amazon:

The Fort Pillow Massacre in 1864 was one of the most brutal moments of the Civil War, and for three confederate soldiers it was the beginning path for their lives of hate, redemption, blood, regret, and vengeance.

Barton Asher tries to futilely escape that day by running north to Minnesota. Vauhn Felton and Thacher Kane seek to relive it as often as they can while their insatiable bloodlust grows.

Lives and bodies are ripped apart as these men’s paths progress and collide, and for the citizens in the Front Range town of Shotley, a bloody horror of pure evil is descending.

Written with a raw honesty, Miles Spangrud’s Flesh and Bone is the shocking account of one deadly event in American history, its aftermath of terror and the permanent affects it had on the minds of those who experienced it all.

I’d welcome thoughts on the state of the genre and on this book, on sale soon.