Word: shiveley
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...worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...
...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...
...hops together, quarreled, outwitted mean-spirited settlers, camped together in a cabin on the desolate coast. Clay lied about the circumstances that had made him a fugitive; Luce would not disclose some dark secret that burdened her life. When the settlers left the coast to trek inland again. Wade Shiveley bobbed up in the wagon train. Clay killed another boy while trying to kill Wade, then accused Wade of the killing. Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone. He saw a countryside that...
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