"Teran's storytelling has a mythic quality to it, and his recreation of a violent era in American history will resonate with many today. Fans of Charles Portis and Philipp Meyer will be enthralled." --Publishers Weekly starred review "Crippled Jack whacks you upside the head from its first page to its final bloody act. Teran's language, like his character, is at times blunt, other times poetic and always barreling like a freight train through an array of robber barons, Pinkerton lackeys and working families mired in poverty and the Colorado silver mines. Wrought with tension and rife with blood as the frontier it inhabits, its hard-scrabble politics and philosophical bent anchors Teran's story with the gravity of a moral reckoning that transcends Crippled Jack's times and mirrors our own." --Bruce Holbert, author of Lonesome Animals and Hours of Lead A beautifully written, brutally uncompromising Western masterpiece, with Crippled Jack , Boston Teran has once again proven himself the modern master of historical fiction, writing history with poetry and lightning! Highly recommended and one of the best novels of the year!" -Eric Petersen, Internet Review of Books "Readers of Western fiction well know the tendency towards formula writing that this genre holds. That's why Crippled Jack by Boston Teran is such a standout. It's revisionist writing at its best, turning the Western genre on end with a story that is delightfully unexpected and evocative.

Libraries.as well as book clubs reading Westerns who seek reads both satisfyingly complex and outstandingly unique, will both find Crippled Jack absorbing and refreshingly original writing." -Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review.