Patrick deWitt · 2011 · road
Patrick deWitt's 2011 comic Western. In 1851, the hired-killer brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters ride out of Oregon City on the Commodore's orders to murder a prospector, Hermann Kermit Warm, chasing him a thousand miles south through the frontier to gold-rush San Francisco and Warm's secret claim in the California diggings - while the softer brother, Eli, begins to doubt the whole bloody trade.
- 1Oregon City
On the orders of the shadowy Commodore, the assassin brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters set out from Oregon City to hunt down and kill the prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, though they scarcely know what he has done.
- 2Jacksonville
Riding south through the gold-country towns of southern Oregon, the brothers drink, brawl and murder their way onward, Eli nursing a doomed horse and a growing unease about the work they do.
- 3San Francisco
They reach San Francisco, a lawless boomtown swollen with fortune-hunters, and pick up the trail of Warm and the Commodore's man Morris, who has unexpectedly thrown in with their quarry.
- 4The diggings
At Warm's claim on a river in the California diggings, his miraculous gold-finding formula and a change of heart turn everything upside down - and the brothers' bloody errand ends nothing like the Commodore intended.