The Ghosts of Watt O'Hugh: BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE STRANGE AND ASTOUNDING MEMOIRS OF WATT O'HUGH THE THIRD (The Memoirs of Watt O'Hugh the Third)
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ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' "BEST OF 2011", NAMED "WINNER" IN THE FANTASY CATEGORY, INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARDS, 2012! Watt O'Hugh III is a self-made man, Civil War vet, Time Roamer, former orphan of the New York slums and dime novel hero of the lost, magical West of the 1870s, and his adventures mark one of the most original, riotous literary fantasy novels in recent memory. When O'Hugh returns to New York as the star of a Wild West show, he thinks his ship has come in. But that's before he wakes up in a Wyoming penitentiary facing a murder charge, a corrupt Wall Street banker turned outlaw and a 2000-year-old Chinese mystery that could change the world forever. All he really wants is to woo Lucy Billings again, the woman he loved and lost in a gilded New York City before the War....